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David A. Ralston is affiliated with Florida International University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Gender Studies, and Communication.

Their scholarly output includes significant work on topics such as Cultural Differences and Values, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Social and Intergroup Psychology, International Student and Expatriate Challenges, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Gender Roles and Identity Studies, and Work-Family Balance Challenges.

David A. Ralston has published in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to the Asia Pacific Journal of Management and the SSRN Electronic Journal, among others. Additional venues include the Journal of International Management, Management International Review, and the Journal of Vocational Behavior.

Their most recent papers include:

  • The Quality of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX): A Multilevel Analysis of Individual-level, Organizational-level and Societal-level Antecedents (2020, Journal of International Management)
  • A Cross-Cultural Examination of Person-Organization Fit: Is P-O Fit Congruent with or Contingent on Societal Values? (2020, Management International Review)
  • The impact of gender-role-orientations on subjective career success: A multilevel study of 36 societies (2022, Journal of Vocational Behavior)
  • Are societal-level values still relevant measures in the twenty-first century businessworld? A 39-society analysis (2022, Asia Pacific Journal of Management)
  • Gender composition at work and women's career satisfaction: An international study of 35 societies (2024, Human Resource Management Journal)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David A. Ralston comprise Olivier Furrer, Fidel León Darder, Mario Marco Molteni, Len J. Treviño, and Ruth Alas.

Best Publications

  • CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN EUROPE AND THE U.S.: INSIGHTS FROM BUSINESSES SELF-PRESENTATIONS

    Isabelle Maignan;David A. Ralston

  • The Impact of Natural Culture and Economic Ideology on Managerial Work Values: A Study of the United States, Russia, Japan, and China

    David A. Ralston;David H. Holt;Robert H. Terpstra;Yu Kai-cheng

  • Generation Cohorts and Personal Values: A Comparison of China and the United States

    Carolyn P. Egri;David A. Ralston

  • The impact of national culture and economic ideology on managerial work values: a study of the United States, Russia, Japan, and China

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  • Differences in Managerial Values: A Study of U.S., Hong Kong and PRC Managers

    David A. Ralston;David J. Gustafson;Fanny M. Cheung;Robert H. Terpstra

  • New Frontiers in Network Theory Development

    Arvind Parkhe;Stanley Wasserman;David A. Ralston

  • Doing Business in the 21st Century with the New Generation of Chinese Managers: A Study of Generational Shifts in Work Values in China

    David A. Ralston;Carolyn P. Egri;Sally Stewart;Robert H. Terpstra

  • NEUTRALIZING JOB STRESSORS: POLITICAL SKILL AS AN ANTIDOTE TO THE DYSFUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF ROLE CONFLICT

    Pamela L. Perrewé;Kelly L. Zellars;Gerald R. Ferris;Ana Maria Rossi

  • Today's state‐owned enterprises of China: are they dying dinosaurs or dynamic dynamos?

    David A. Ralston;Jane Terpstra-Tong;Robert H. Terpstra;Xueli Wang

  • Corporate responsibility: A review of international management research from 1998 to 2007

    Carolyn P. Egri;David A. Ralston

  • Eastern values : a comparison of managers in the United States, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China

    David A. Ralston;David J. Gustafson;Priscilla M. Elsass;Fanny Cheung

  • The crossvergence perspective: reflections and projections

    David A Ralston

  • A Comparative Study of the Work Values of North and South Vietnamese Managers

    David A. Ralston;Nguyen Van Thang;Nancy K. Napier

  • Employee Ingratiation: The Role of Management

    David A. Ralston

  • Are work stress relationships universal? A nine-region examination of role stressors, general self-efficacy, and burnout

    Pamela L Perrewé;Wayne A Hochwarter;Ana Maria Rossi;Alan Wallace

  • Stability and Change in Managerial Work Values: A Longitudinal Study of China, Hong Kong, and the U.S.

    David A. Ralston;James Pounder;Carlos W.H. Lo;Yim‐Yu Wong

  • A twenty-first century assessment of values across the global workforce

    David A. Ralston;Carolyn P. Egri;Emmanuelle Reynaud;Narasimhan Srinivasan

  • Constraints on Capitalism in Russia: The Managerial Psyche, Social Infrastructure, and Ideology

    David H. Holt;David A. Ralston;Robert H. Terpstra

  • Cultural Accommodation: The Effect of Language on the Responses of Bilingual Hong Kong Chinese Managers

    David A. Ralston;Mary K. Cunniff;David J. Gustafson

  • Societal-Level Versus Individual-Level Predictions of Ethical Behavior: A 48-Society Study of Collectivism and Individualism

    David Ralston;Carolyn Egri;Olivier Furrer;Min-Hsun Kuo

  • Attitudes toward Corporate Responsibilities in Western Europe and in Central and East Europe

    Olivier Furrer;Carolyn Egri;David Ralston;Wade Danis

  • Ethical perceptions of organizational politics: A comparative evaluation of American and Hong Kong managers

    David A. Ralston;Robert A. Giacalone;Robert H. Terpstra

Frequent Co-Authors

Pamela L. Perrewé
Pamela L. Perrewé Florida State University
Philip Hallinger
Philip Hallinger Mahidol University
Mina Westman
Mina Westman Tel Aviv University
Fanny M. Cheung
Fanny M. Cheung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Gerald R. Ferris
Gerald R. Ferris Florida State University
Stanley Wasserman
Stanley Wasserman Indiana University

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