Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
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...However, Hofstede (1991) credits strong, often absolute, causality to national cultures (e.g. p. 170)....
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...Uncertainty Avoidance: ‘intolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity’ (Hofstede, 1991: 113; Hofstede & Peterson, 2000: 401)....
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...(Hofstede, 1991: 182; see also Hofstede et al., 1990: 312; Hofstede & Peterson, 2000: 405) Hofstede’s supposition of continuity – the notion that national and occupational cultures are permanent and completed consequences of early ‘socialization’ – has few supporters....
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...Power Distance: ‘the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) expect and accept that power is distributed unequally’ (Hofstede, 1991: 28; Hofstede & Peterson, 2000: 401)....
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...Even if it is supposed that a national culture is somehow composed of separately identifiable independent dimensions’ (Hofstede, 1980a, 1991), why should we accept that Hofstede successfully identified even the ‘dominant’ dimensions?...
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