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<p>In this paper, we replicate and expand Littrell et al.’s (in Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 19(3), 315–335 <CitationRef CitationID="CR64">2012</CitationRef>) study examining variations in employee preferences for explicit managerial leader behaviors in mainland China. Drawing on Hofstede´s model of culture, culturally contingent leadership theory and theory of cultural dynamism, and using a wider array of data including that on societal cultural values, we found that, unlike the original study, these values and preferences have homogenized across the country. They have reverted towards traditional Chinese societal-cultural values and distanced from the “Western influx” occurring from the 1970-ies. We argue that recent environmental shock, the Covid-19 pandemic, may have induced the phenomenon of relapse towards traditional societal cultural values and, thus, preferences for leader behaviors. On these bases, we elaborate on our contributions, identify practical implications, and suggest future research directions to examine the global scale and magnitude of the phenomenon.</p>

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Back to the roots: The homogenization of intra-national differences in societal culture and preferred managerial leader behaviors in China

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    2025年4月14日

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  • Jasenko Ljubica,
  • Romie Frederick Littrell,
  • Charles Chen,
  • Shuiquan Jiang

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In this paper, we replicate and expand Littrell et al.’s (in Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, 19(3), 315–335 2012) study examining variations in employee preferences for explicit managerial leader behaviors in mainland China. Drawing on Hofstede´s model of culture, culturally contingent leadership theory and theory of cultural dynamism, and using a wider array of data including that on societal cultural values, we found that, unlike the original study, these values and preferences have homogenized across the country. They have reverted towards traditional Chinese societal-cultural values and distanced from the “Western influx” occurring from the 1970-ies. We argue that recent environmental shock, the Covid-19 pandemic, may have induced the phenomenon of relapse towards traditional societal cultural values and, thus, preferences for leader behaviors. On these bases, we elaborate on our contributions, identify practical implications, and suggest future research directions to examine the global scale and magnitude of the phenomenon.