Management research, international business, and national culture evaluating Hofstede and GLOBE
"Why do different groups of people behave in different ways when dealing with the common challenges of human life? The answer often lies in their cultural attitudes, values, and consequent behaviours. The study of human culture has been deemed a key contribution to understanding human life for...
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New York, London
Routledge Taylor
2023
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| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in international business and the world economy
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Why do different groups of people behave in different ways when dealing with the common challenges of human life? The answer often lies in their cultural attitudes, values, and consequent behaviours. The study of human culture has been deemed a key contribution to understanding human life for many centuries. Explanations and descriptions of cultural characteristics abound, but in the field of business, none have been more influential and warmly embraced than those developed by Geert Hofstede and the GLOBE group. These models of national culture, which characterise Japanese, Americans, French and may other nationalities in terms of common characteristics such as collectivism, masculinity, and power distance, are the most widely cited and applied in business research, teaching and recommendations for practice. But this seminal work needs a careful reality check. The authors of this book point out a range of problems associated with the Hofstede and GLOBE national culture measures which bring into question their accuracy and usefulness in meeting the expectations of management culture researchers and students. This book explains in detail why the measures developed by Hofstede and GLOBE are of dubious validity and why they should be viewed with caution by those looking for answers to the complex questions of culture"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 205 pages Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781032116150 978-1-032-11615-0 9781032116204 978-1-032-11620-4 |