Impact of Organizational Culture on Individual Work Performance with National Culture of Cross-Strait Enterprises as a Moderator

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Rewrite the abstract, it must be more interesting to the reader.
The literature review is too fragmented and confusing.
I consider the number of respondents to be insufficient for a number of hypotheses. Define whether the file is representative.
The discussion seems insufficient.
I suggest you read more published articles on similar topics
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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors,

The topic is interesting, and the sample size is large enough. Particularly, I found the comparison between different ownership and employees’ nationalities brings meaningful values. However, the below points can be considered to improve the quality.

1. 2-I cannot see the clear contribution, ‘the impact of organizational culture on the individual work performance’ has been well known. So why is this research so special? Or what is new?
2. P,2 Hofstede [8] proposed a measure of differences between cultures and developed six national cultural dimensions (Hofstede and Minkov, 2010) à check this reference style ‘(Hofstede and Minkov, 2010)’ should it be [ ]?
3. Hypothesis 1 is too general.
4. Section 2.3 is descriptive – it is difficult to find a gap or limitation. Hofstede dimensions are not many reflected in conclusion.
5. Rather, you can bring ‘clan culture’ etc which are highlighted in discussion
6. Rather, H3 and H4 are very interesting, the literatures are well developed in this area, it can be developed further.
7. Section4 – you can include control variables,
8. below 10,000/30,000 (RMB/NTD); 377 (39.0%) 10,000– 20,000/30,000–60,000 (RMB/NTD); à those currency can be expressed ‘dollar’
9. 14 - Contextual performance is defined as the extent to which a good organizational, social, and psychological environment is established so that the core activities of the organization can function properly, and employees can accomplish challenging and additional tasks through active participation to acquire new knowledge and skills. à definition needs an appropriate citation.
10. and national cultures are tested to see the relationship to employees’ performance, then the article can focus more on individual level analysis in conclusion.

Thank you. 

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Reviewer 3 Report

Dear authors,

I have read your paper with great interest. The manuscript puts together hypothesis, methods, investigations and statistical analyses which are appropriate to an original research. My comments below try to help in the process of improving the current form of your manuscript by pointing out a few minor changes that should be made. Accordingly, I have also mentioned some parts of paper where I felt I needed more information.

1. Topic originality and relevance to the field

The authors addressed the issue of assessing the impact of organizational culture on individual work performance while considering the national culture of cross-strait enterprises as a moderation factor. This represents a current topic of major interest and it is obvious that there is an imperious need to deepen understanding regarding the new work patterns and their particular determinants, in the context of multiple changes emerged in the global labor markets over the last few years. Moreover, the peculiarities of organizational and national culture variables and their impact on work performance in companies originating from China and Taiwan represent an area of special interest, having learned that despite their geographical proximity, the two countries have embraced different patterns of economic development following the Taiwan Straits crises.

2. Introduction

The Introduction puts forward three specific aims targeted by the study: 1. the assessment of the impact of organizational culture on the individual work performance of Chinese and Taiwanese employees; 2. the identification of the role played by the national culture of employees in enterprises across the Taiwan Strait in the process of moderating the relationship between organizational culture and individual work performance; 3. the investigation of the differences emerged in organizational culture and national culture between different types of ownership and regions from China and Taiwan. In this context, I believe that highlighting the research gap that authors are trying to fill could significantly improve the process of understanding the motivations that triggered authors’ interest towards specific variables and statistical investigations performed in the paper.

3. Literature Review and Hypotheses Development

The hypotheses’ development process is closely related to the content of other similar recent studies from the literature. However, I believe a summary table containing all hypotheses initially stated and the outcomes of statistical tests performed would be very useful (in terms of highlighting the hypotheses supported and the hypotheses rejected following the statistical analyses). I think that this table should be inserted at the end of section 4.3. Testing the research hypothesis.

I think that further explanations on the significance of the four distinct dimensions of the organizational culture – i.e. clan culture, hierarchy culture, adhocracy culture, and market culture should be provided in this part of the paper.

4. Research Methods.

The content of this section looks scientifically sound. Please indicate the SPSS and Microsoft Excel versions used in order to carry out statistical analyses.

5. Discussion

The “Discussion” section contains a comprehensive summary of the results of the study, and makes proper linkages to other upt-to-date studies conducted in the same field. Following the unexpected outcome related to the impact of adhocracy culture upon counterproductive work behaviors, I kindly suggest authors to elaborate further on the issue and to propose some future research directions to deepen the knowledge in the field.

6. Conclusions

The conclusions are well-substantiated and are strongly correlated with the output of statistical analyses performed in section 4. However, I believe that the final paragraph, which reiterates the research gap filled by the authors and emphasizes the main purpose of the present study, should be a part of the Introduction section.

7. Technical Notes

The article needs an English language proof-reading. There are a few spelling errors and other grammar inconsistencies. For instance, see the following phrase in page 16: “The target of this study was companies in mainland China and Taiwan…”

Following the operationalization of the above-mentioned improvements, the paper will be ready for publication.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Accept in present form

This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.