ABSTRACT
The US and Canada are considered on both sides of their border to have very similar national and business cultures. To a large extent, this assumption has been supported by a number of older studies showing that American and Canadian values and attitudes tended to cluster together and were different from clusters of other nations and national cultures. A useful way to understand American and Canadian business attitudes and practices is through directly comparing how they differ from each other. There are a number of studies that compare the two economies, and the ease of doing business in each country. Economically speaking, the US has a weaker and lower-performing economy than Canada when measured on a per capita basis. Canadian and American business-people predominantly approach problem-solving in the same Introverted Sensing (Si) way, objectively and with great factual accuracy, discounting extrasensory arguments such as related to beliefs or values, and unproven but creative ideas.
