Asia-Pacific Management and Business Application
Vol 3, No 2 (2014)

The Impact of Local Culture on Financial Performance in Property Firms in Bali

I Putu Astawa (Tourism Business Management, Bali State Polytechnic, Bali)
Putu Sudika (of Economics and Business, University of Mahasaraswati, Bali)



Article Info

Publish Date
17 Sep 2015

Abstract

The research studies local culture reflected through pray, hard work, honesty, tatwamasi and gotong royong influencing property sales and company assets. Fifty companies are qualified as sample of sixty one property companies actively operated in 2013. Data is collected through questionnaire having tested for its reliability and validity before distributed to those fifty companies. The collected data is analyzed with multiple  regression. Result shows that hard work, honesty, tatwamasi and gotong royong culture that well implemented are able to improve property sale and assets ownership. Result of the study has implication that in order to improve financial performance, local culture should be included as variable in performance measurement. Result of the study gives contribution to Schein’s organizational culture (2004) that colored with local culture; therefore, values believed in an organization are able to improve performance.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

apmba

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

Description

Asia-Pacific Management and Business Application journal (APMBA) is a scholarly journal, publishing internationally leading research across all areas of management. APMBA continuously seeking articles that challenge the affect of globalization through business world through critically informed ...