Open AccessCultural traits and productive transformation: Colombia in international perspective
Author(s) -
Fabián Garzón Cuervo
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista cife/revista cife
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-4914
pISSN - 0124-3551
DOI - 10.15332/22484914.5372
Subject(s) - industrialisation , materialism , hofstede's cultural dimensions theory , perspective (graphical) , dimension (graph theory) , order (exchange) , economic geography , cultural values , economic system , development economics , economics , sociology , social science , market economy , philosophy , epistemology , finance , artificial intelligence , computer science , pure mathematics , mathematics
Drawing from the consideration of cultural values as an explanatory factor of economic development, this article correlates the cultural traits reported by Hofstede’s Cultural Dimension model with the results in terms of industrialization for Colombia and selected cultural clusters. By contrasting industrialization-oriented policy choices with the evolution of export composition and industrial competitiveness indicators, we conclude that guided by a short-term, materialistic, nepotistic, and intolerant to uncertainty orientation, Colombian economic authorities and elites have helped in the prolongation of an underdeveloped industrial structure by favoring closed groups through extractive institutions, while Asia, instead of adopting ‘western values’, has drawn upon a long-term orientation to implement risky but sound, coordinated, and convergent social and economic policies in order to industrialize.