Therefore, there is clearly a need to
investigate whether these patterns exist across a wider sampling of cultures. If so, it would provide
support for our belief that a fairly consistent pattern of the relative level of acceptability of the
different upward influence strategies—as well as behavior, in general—does exist across cultures.
The implication for practitioners from this study, as well as from previous research, is that it
may be naïve to assume relative consistency in behavior within a culture. Life stage, geographic
region and other micro (e.g., gender), meso (e.g., group culture) and macro (e.g., economic
development) factors must be taken into account to have a sophisticated understand of behavior
within and across cultures. However, proof of this viewpoint must be left for future research.