Abstract

Our empirical analyses, based on a large international dataset of private firms, show that a cultural orientation towards secrecy significantly negatively affects the likelihood of investing in innovation. This finding is robust to a host of concerns and suggests that cultural orientation towards secrecy explains a significant portion of the cross-country variations in private firms’ innovation.

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