Formal Institutions, National Culture, and AI (Artificial Intelligence) Innovation
Event details
Building on information processing theory, we study how the interplay between formal institutions and national culture influences inventors’ information processing in developing AI innovation. We argue and find that, following the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) announcement, GDPR-affected countries exhibit lower national AI innovation rates than unaffected countries. Further, we postulate that this negative effect is weaker in GDPR-affected countries marked by higher levels of individualism, masculinity, and indulgence, but stronger in the affected countries with higher levels of uncertainty avoidance, power distance, and long-term orientation. We test our framework in a quasi-natural experimental setting by exploiting the announcement of the GDPR.
About the speaker
Professor David Yoon
Professor David Yoon holds the Chair in Global Business and Development, with a specialization in international business and entrepreneurship. Before joining York in 2024, he held a faculty position at the University of Leeds (UK) and served as a visiting and affiliate faculty member at various institutions worldwide, including Grenoble Ecole de Management (France), Universidad del Pacífico (Peru), and UM6P (Morocco).