This paper asks why uncertainties are avoided in dominant megaproject practice while planning scholars increasingly advocating adaptive and uncertainty acknowledgement. We propose a novel analytical framework to explain avoidance, consisting of two current explanations – resource constraint strategic behaviour models complementary institutional model. apply the seaport Flanders test its validit...

Corporate adoption of information technology (IT) infrastructure is a critical management issue that may be affected by national culture. Prior research has shown that dimensions of national culture affect development of national IT infrastructure as well as adoption and impact of IT applications. This study explores the impact of two dimensions of national culture (uncertainty avoidance and po...

Guided by Hofstede’s (Culture’s consequences: Comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across nations, 2001) cultural value of uncertainty avoidance, this study tests whether the effect of concrete vs. abstract CSR campaign messages on attitude toward the company and purchase intention varies by cultural difference in uncertainty avoidance and whether such effect is mediated...

hoarding is characterized by the persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of the value others may attribute to these possessions. hoarding resembles obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd) in several ways. the avoidance of and difficulties with discarding seem to be driven by fears of losing something significant or being responsible for a bad outcome. these could be...

Changes in taxation policies generate uncertainty for companies that can potentially encourage perform more aggressive tax planning. Aggressive planning lead to avoidance. This study aims investigate the effect of managerial ability, firm size, and interaction ability with size on corporate avoidance practices. The used quantitative method, panel data linear regression model, random effects a t...

This study aims to investigate the effect of changes in corporate income tax rates as company's external uncertainty on avoidance, which make companies engage avoidance practices ensure future benefits and increase value. Using agency theory basis for analyzing, this uses a quantitative approach processes data using linear regression method with sample consumer non-cyclical industry 2018-2020 p...

Hoarding is characterized by the persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of the value others may attribute to these possessions. Hoarding resembles obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in several ways. The avoidance of and difficulties with discarding seem to be driven by fears of losing something significant or being responsible for a bad outcome. These could be...

Consumer trust is one of the key obstacles to online vendors seeking to extend their consumers across cultures. This research identifies culture at the individual consumer level. Based on the Stimulus– Organism–Response (S–O–R) model, this study focuses on the moderating role of uncertainty avoidance culture value on privacy and security as cognition influences, joy and fear as emotional influe...

Prior research in cross-cultural studies in technology adoption has mainly focused on national cultural level and conducted in western countries. This paper examines the impact of espoused national cultural values on consumer’s intention to use mobile payment devices using the UTAUT and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions as the basis for the research framework. The moderating effect of espoused unc...