ambitions and local identities: An Israeli-American high-tech merger Ailon-Souday‚ G.‚ & Kunda‚ G. 2003. The local selves of global workers: The social construction of national identity in the face of organizational globalization Baskerville‚ R. F. 2003. Hofstede never studied culture. Accounting‚ Organizations and Society‚ 28: 1–14. Bhagat‚ R. S. 2002. Book review of Culture’s consequences: Comparing values‚ behaviors‚ institutions‚ and organizations across nations (second edition) Bing‚ J. W. 2004. Hofstede’s
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Intercultural Communications have been of great interest to the Hofstede Centre for many years. In fact Geert Hofstede’s dimensions of culture have been the most widely disseminated of all theories. Hofstede’s five cultural dimensions are‚ “1) Power Distance‚ 2) Individualism or Collectivism‚ 3) Masculinity-Femininity‚ 4) Uncertainty Avoidance‚ and 5) Short or Long Term Orientation.” (Donald Baack‚ 2012‚ Chapter 2.4). “Professor Geert Hofstede conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of how values
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Gerard Hendrik Hofstede (born October 2‚ 1928 in Haarlem) is a Dutch expert in cultural studies [GHW]. Hofstede (1980) surveyed 88‚000 IBM employees working in 66 countries and then ranked the countries on different cultural dimensions. His research resulted in four dimensions (power distance; individualism versus collectivism; uncertainty avoidance; and masculinity and femininity). In the beginning‚ China was not included in this study but later Bond and Hofstede looked at Chinese values. From this
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particular things different from one human group to another and therefore culture separates groups of people (Geert Hofstede). This applies to all kind of groups‚ such as national‚ but also organizational. In this assignment I will investigate to what extent the results of my personal cultural profile match the profile of my domestic culture (Dutch) using the 5 dimensions model (Hofstede‚ Hofstede and Minkov‚ 2010). Next to that I will discuss if the results of my cultural profile present me well‚ according
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Journal of Business Research 60 (2007) 277 – 284 Hofstede ’s dimensions of culture in international marketing studies Ana Maria Soares a‚⁎‚ Minoo Farhangmehr a‚1 ‚ Aviv Shoham b‚2 a School of Economics and Management‚ University of Minho‚ 4710-057‚ Braga‚ Portugal b Graduate School of Management‚ University of Haifa‚ Haifa‚ 31905‚ Israel Received 1 March 2006; received in revised form 1 August 2006; accepted 1 October 2006 Abstract Growth of research addressing the relationship between
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though there is no available data for the future‚ one can study current major findings of reputable academic sources within the cross-cultural field. To better understand the cross-cultural field‚ one must first define culture as a term. Geert Hofstede defined culture as “the collective programming of the human mind that distinguishes the members of one human group from those of another. Culture in this sense is a system of collectively held values.” Gesteland and Gesteland (2010) made a more relevant
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Culture is the “the collective programming of the mind distinguish the members of one group or category of people from another” (Hofstede‚ 2011). The definition of culture tend to gives us the ability to understand‚ interact people for other culture that may be drastically different from our own. The 21-century may be known as the century of the “global world”. The growth of interdependence and cooperation among countries‚ and international companies‚ do not claim that the cultural difference is
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1108/02756660710746256 Hall‚ E Hofstede‚ G. (1984). Culture’s consequences: international differences in work-related values. Newbury Park‚ CA: Sage Publications. Hofstede‚ G. (1991). Cultures and organizations – software of the mind. New York‚ NY: Mcgraw-Hill. Hofstede‚ G. (2001). Cultures Consequences: Comparing Values‚ Behaviours‚ Institutions & Organizations Across Nations. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage. Hofstede‚ G. (2014). China. Retrieved from http://geert-hofstede.com/china.html Hofstede‚ G Hofstede‚ G. (2014). United
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the radioactive material‚ preventing it from overheating and melting down. In March 2011‚ viewers around the world became well acquainted with this reality as Japanese citizens fled by the tens of thousands from the area surrounding the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear facility after the most powerful earthquake on record and the ensuing tsunami inflicted serious damage on the plant and several of its reactor units. Among other events‚ water drained from the reactor core‚ which in turn made it impossible
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Paper I would like to discuss‚ reflect on and analyse Hofstede’s cultural patterns. Based on my personal experiences and opinions I believe Hofstede has to some extent attempted to successfully classify different nations and cultures into their predominant dimensions‚ however it is not without its flaw. Of the four dimensions Hofstede has identified‚ I will explain two. The notion of power distance (PD) has proven to be a relatively accurate cultural phenomenon. Having lived
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