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Cultures and Organizations

Cultures and Organizations

  • Author: G. Hofstede
  • Year: 2010
  • Description: I n the late 1960s Geert accidentally became interested in national cultural differences and got access to rich data for studying them. His research resulted in the publication in 1980 of a book
  • Category: Study guide
  • Section: Literature and Language
  • Publisher: Mc GrawHill
  • Language: English
  • Page count: 561
  • ISBN: 978-0-07-177015-6
  • Views: 93
  • Tags: national cultural differences
  • Keywords: empiricall information

Culture's Consequences appeared at a time when the interest in cultural differences, both between nations and between organizations, was sharply rising, and there was a dearth of empirically supported information on the subject. The book provided such information, but maybe too much of it at once. Many readers evidently got only parts of the message. For example