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Which cultures would be more likely to focus on external controls?

Which cultures would consider direct controls to be more important than indirect controls?

Overall, because of cultural norms, Japan would rely more on external controls, especially customs. This would also occur in countries like China and Vietnam that while leaning towards more individual and larger scale capitalism, still has at times varying amounts of strong government led external controls. This is probably also the case in Russia and other countries where there are varying amounts of a neo-dictatorship. Also, socialism and the culture still...

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Which cultures would be more likely to focus on external controls?
Which cultures would consider direct controls to be more important than indirect controls?
"This solution is comprised of a detailed explanation of which culture(s) would rely on external controls for managing a business and which culture(s) would rely more on direct controls.

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I would say this. Overall, because of cultural norms, Japan would rely more on external controls, especially customs. This would also occur in countries like China and Vietnam that while leaning towards more individual and larger scale capitalism, still has at times varying amounts of strong government led external controls. This is probably also the case in Russia and other countries where there are varying amounts of a neo-dictatorship. Also, socialism and the culture still of Western Europe still has an amount of external ...

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