Institutional framework’s moderation of the effects of cultures fit on allies’ trust: Case of international alliances

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Imen Jayari
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6365-5894
Mehrez Chaher

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to illuminate the effect of fit between allies’ cultures on their trust and to analyse the moderating role of institutional framework on this effect. A quantitative empirical analysis, adopting a hypothetico-deductive approach, was carried out in order to validate the causal model. The results, declined from a collected data by a survey distributed to 114 international alliances, evince that the cultural fit of allies influences positively the trust between themselves. Besides, they highlight the role of the institutional framework which moderates positively and reinforces the effect of the allies’ cultures compatibility on the trust between themselves. This can be explained by the fact that the rigour of the institutional framework represents for allies a guarantee of their tangible and intangible assets’ protection and collaboration.


Keywords: Organisational cultures fit, national cultures fit, intercultural intelligence, mistrust, goodwill.

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Jayari, I., & Chaher, M. (2019). Institutional framework’s moderation of the effects of cultures fit on allies’ trust: Case of international alliances. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 6(3), 85–94. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v6i3.4339
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