Cultural determinants in Chile – the land of great ambitions
Journal Title: Journal of Intercultural Management - Year 2013, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Chile is commonly described as “the best student” in the Latin America class.In 1985 Harrsion with his publication Underdevelopment is a state of mind [Lawrence,1985] started research on the significance of cultural determinants in economicdevelopment. Having based his research on two examples, he proved his thesis thatculture is a determining obstacle in the development of Latin American states. Causingmany discussions, he initiated a wide range of socio-economic research, the aim ofwhich was to present to what degree and what kind of cultural factors shape political andeconomic development, and which ones lead to social stagnation. Further research byHarisson and Huntington which was published in their work Culture matters [Lawrence,2000] presented a wide spectrum of interconnections of culture with civilizationdevelopment, institutions and geographic conditions. The scientific discourse includesthe phenomenon of cultural changes promotion as an element of the pro-developmentpolicy as well as anthropological considerations on the influence of “cultural imperialism”of Europe and the States in the globalization era on the preservation of societies’ culturalidentity. Many publications in the area of research on cultural conditions in managementand negotiations appeared in the 1990s. This scientific discourse has gathered its ownmomentum as the amount of research brings about the increase of connections ofinterdisciplinary cultural determinants.
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Dorota Bochniak-Piasecka
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