This study examines the impact of culture on regulation and corruption. Our empirical results suggest that cultural values have significant effects on countries’ regulatory policies, levels of corruption, and economic development. Contrary to the conclusions drawn by others, this study shows no significant relationship between the regulatory policies of countries and their perceived levels of corruption. Thus, evidence of the ‘‘public choice view’’ toward entry regulation derived in related studies seems to be at least attenuated.

Based on the cross-time-section series data collected from Wall Street Journal(WSJ), this article suggests that the corruption perceptions index (CPI) for 60 countries/regions published by Transparency International (TI) is highly correlated to their WSJ news about “corruption”, especially for the eight strong countries. Comparing with a slight converging trend of standard deviation of CPI value, the score of CPI presents no significant response to the time dimension. Despite of the strong correlation, our partial multiple correlation models suggest that, WSJ news can be really regarded as one good indicator of the level of corruption in a country, rather than the potential cause influencing CPI. Some discussions about the correlation between the WSJ news and some other corruption indicators confirm our above findings.

新兴技术的辨识至关重要但也非常困难. 比较了职能论者与战略选择理论对组织战略的不同解释;分析了新兴技术与组织战略的匹配性. 进一步,建立了以战略选择理论为基础的新兴技术认知模型,重点分析了高层管理团队对新兴技术管理的重要影响. 通过对BM和Seagate两家企业的案例分析,验证了模型的应用价值.