Hofstede Cultural dimensions PDI 54 Country Japan IDV 46 MAS 95 UAI 92 LTO 80 According to Hofstede‚ Japan’s culture has: low power distance High collectivism High masculinity High uncertainty avoidance Long-term oriented PDI = Power Distance Index IDV = Individualism MAS = Masculinity UAI = Uncertainty Avoidance Index LTO = Long-term Orientation These are reflected in Japan’s Marketing practices and consumer behavior Source: Geert Hofstede 2009
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Team Performance Management Emerald Article: Overcoming the problems of cultural differences to establish success for international management teams Malcolm Higgs Article information: To cite this document: Malcolm Higgs‚ (1996)‚"Overcoming the problems of cultural differences to establish success for international management teams"‚ Team Performance Management‚ Vol. 2 Iss: 1 pp. 36 - 43 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13527599610105547 Downloaded on: 26-01-2013
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Transformational & Transactional Leadership What is “national culture”? Analysis of Hofstede ’s cultural dimensions theory Hofstede ’s cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural communication‚ developed by Geert Hofstede. It describes the effects of a society ’s culture on the values of its members‚ and how these values relate to behavior‚ using a structure derived from factor analysis. Hofstede developed his original model as a result of using factor analysis to examine the results
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Management Journal‚ vol. 37‚ no. 3‚ pp. 522-53. Gordon‚ GG (1991). Industry Determinants of Organizational Culture’‚ Academy of Management Review‚ vol Hammer‚ M (2001). The superefficient company’‚ Harvard Business Review‚ vol. 79‚ no. 8‚ pp. 82-91. Hofstede‚ G‚ Neuijen‚ B‚ Ohayv‚ DD & Sanders‚ G (1990). Measuring Organizational Cultures: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study across Twenty Cases’‚ Administrative Science Quarterly‚ vol. 35‚ no. 2‚ pp. 286-316. House‚ R.‚ Javidan‚ M.‚ & Dorfman
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across cultures. As stated byOsland (1990‚ p. 4) ``The single greatest barrier to business success is the one erected by culture’’. Hofstede (1983) defines culture as "the mental programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one human group from another" (Hofstede 1983 p. 25). Through the comparison of Chinese culture and Australian culture using Hofstedes five cross-cultural dimensions: power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ masculinity‚ individualism‚ and long-term orientation an insightful
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Student 12014354 University of South Wales Year 2014-2015 Global Business Report ER3S72 ELECDYNE Abstract: This report will help Elecdyne a Japanese SME analyse and apprehend the opportunities and risks of the internal and external business environment concerning the electronic industry in three chosen countries helping the company think about its futurology. With the help of strategic models‚ analytical frameworks and a large range of sources‚ this report will provide Elecdyne with a clear
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A critical review of Javidan‚ M.‚ Dorfman‚ P.W.‚ Sully de luque‚ M.‚ House‚ R.J.‚ (2006). ‘IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER: Cross Cultural Lessons in Leadership from Project GLOBE.’ Academic of Management perspectives‚ February‚ pp 67-90 Introduction Global leadership have been seen as a way forward for multi-national organisations‚ however‚ the information gathered about different cultural context of countries has been helpful‚ even it has not been practically and theoretically use to lead in an overseas
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Country Market Insight - October ‘Consumer Lifestyles China’ Euromonitor International November ’LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton: Company Factfile’ September Haisma-Kwok‚ C.; ’VUITTON DOUBLES UP IN HONG KONG.’ WWD: Women’s Wear Daily Vol Issue Hofstede‚ Geert. ( ).Culture’s Consequences‚ International Differences in Work-Related Values (Cross Cultural Research and Methodology) Newbury Park‚ CA: Sage.Hofstede Husband and Chadha‚ ‘Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia’s
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Dimensional Analysis Across 43 Nations. Hofstede’s Mode Of National Cultural Differences And Their Consequences: A Triumph of Faith – A Failure of Analysis This article touches on many of the problems with cross-culture study conducted by Greet Hofstede. For one‚ McSweeny asks whether the national-cultural values can be derived from studying only those gainfully employed in a business environment. The ‘Dimensional’ study does not provide an adequate answer to this question as the source of its samples
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Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Volume 4‚ 2007 The Cultural Impact of Information Systems – Through the Eyes of Hofstede – A Critical Journey Michael Jones University of Wollongong‚ Wollongong‚ Australia mjones@uow.edu.au Irit Alony Central Queensland University‚ Rockhampton‚ Australia i.alony@cqu.edu.au Abstract With the increasing levels of multiculturalism in today’s business and the proliferation and essentiality of information systems‚ development and management
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