Cross-Cultural Studies
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The area of cross-cultural management and organization studies has been dominated by Hofstede’s (1980a) seminal work on cultural values dimensions. Despite much recent criticism, and perhaps because of it, he remains the most cited author in this area. It is difficult to start any account in this field without reference to his work, and this is certainly the starting point here. This chapter first looks at the main contributions of the work of Hofstede, and others working parallel with him or subsequent to his main body of work. This includes looking at the merits of studies including the World Values Survey, Trompenaars (1993) and its subsequent reinterpretation by Peter Smith (Smith, Trompenaars and Dugan, 1996) and the more recent work of the GLOBE study (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, 2004). Yet, how useful are these and what are their shortcomings?
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