El papel de la cultura en la evaluación de la felicidad entre países. Una aproximación fsQCA.

  1. Torres Peña, Francisco José 1
  2. Torres-Ruiz, Francisco José 1
  3. Vega-Zamora, Manuela 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Jaén
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    Universidad de Jaén

    Jaén, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0122p5f64

Journal:
Revista de Estudios Empresariales. Segunda época

ISSN: 1988-9046

Year of publication: 2022

Issue: 2

Pages: 276-291

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17561/REE.N2.2022.7121 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

The happiness of countries has important effects on their image, prestige, attraction of funds ortourism. Furthermore, there are rankings and models developed to try to explain what it dependson. This paper explores the possibility of improving the World Happiness Report model intwo ways: the inclusion of cultural variables and the analysis of possible interactions betweenvariables. To this end, the original database has been supplemented with Hofstede's culturaldimensions, replicating the original regression analyses and using an fsQCA. The results showthe need to include culture in this type of studies and the existence of three different models ofcountries with high happiness scores

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