The uncertainty avoidance dimension can also be expected to exert an influence on the budget structuring process. For example, specific and clear statements of how budgets will be handled under various contingencies would help to reduce anxieties about facing the vagaries of the future.
Given that Japan is high in uncertainty avoidance but is collectivistic in culture, and the U.S. is not high on uncertainty avoidance but is high on individualism, there are three possible outcomes which can be hypothesized as follows;