Hofstede's model of national cultural differences and their consequences: A triumph of faith - a failure of analysis

McSweeney, Brendan

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“…Hofstede's model, based on comparisons and cultural distances between countries, has been criticised for its methodological development (Kirkman, Lowe, & Gibson, 2006), in the formulation of the fifth dimension (Fang, 2003), because the consumer's behaviour does not always correspond to the differences between countries expressed by Hofstede (Yuksel, Kilinc, & Yuksel, 2006), or because nation cannot be equated with culture (McSweeney, 2002;Myers & Tan, 2003), but it is the model that has been most used to identify the cultural differences between countries (Soares, Farhangmehr, & Shoham, 2007) and that has most influenced cross-cultural management (Steenkamp, 2001 On the basis of these data, and following previous research (Liu, Furrer, & Sudharshan, 2001), we have taken into account for the interpretation of the results those two of Hofstede's dimensions in which these two groups are furthest apart in absolute values: individualism and uncertainty avoidance (see table 1).…”

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Urban destination loyalty drivers and cross-national moderator effects: The case of Barcelona

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Urban destination loyalty drivers and cross-national moderator effects: The case of Barcelona

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“…Other theorists have also argued that some of Hofstede's (2007) data are contradictory within certain countries (McSweeney, 2002). Within the limited space available here, I aim to offer the reader the most thorough debate as possible on the UK construction sector itself, rather than include it within a broader brush of gender-themed research that covers other industries.…”

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Organizational cultures: Obstacles to women in the UK construction industry

Worrall

2012

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“…To further examine the relationships between national culture and union membership, this study uses two different conceptualizations of culture: the Hofstede (2001) framework-which, although popular, has been criticized by some (McSweeney, 2002)-and the Global Leadership and organizational Behaviour Effectiveness (GLoBE) measures (House et al, 2004). The GLoBE measures overlap with, but are both conceptually and empirically distinguishable from, the Hofstede measures (Hofstede, 2001).…”

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National Culture and Union Membership

Posthuma¹

2009

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Résumé de l'article La culture nationale et la syndicalisation : une approche culturelle et cognitive Voulant aller au-delà des perspectives normatives et régulatrices de la théorie néo-institutionnelle, cette étude se sert d'une perspective culturelle et cognitive pour étudier l'influence portée par les dimensions multiples d'une culture nationale sur la syndicalisation. Dans ce but, les structures culturelles ont été comparées en utilisant des données du World Values Survey qui ont été associés aux résultats de GLOBE et Hofstede sur la culture nationale (n = 43 867 employées, 32 pays). Des contrastes entre les résultats de GLOBE et de Hofstede ont démontré que ceux de GLOBE fournissaient de meilleurs indices et qu'ils offraient une meilleure compréhension de la relation entre la culture nationale et la syndicalisation. Ceci a résolu le paradoxe concernant l'absence d'un rapport important entre le collectivisme et la syndicalisation dans les recherches précédentes.Plus précisément, la syndicalisation a été associée de manière positive au collectivisme institutionnel, mais non pas au collectivisme en groupe. De plus, le fait que l'orientation de performance de GLOBE ait été associée de manière négative à la syndicalisation explique le rapport négatif entre la masculinité et la syndicalisation chez Hofstede dans les recherches précédentes.Par ailleurs, les recherches précédentes sur la syndicalisation ont utilisé en général soit des variables au niveau individuel (c'est-à-dire des employés), soit des variables au niveau macro (c'est-à-dire du pays) pour expliquer la syndicalisation. Des techniques statistiques développées récemment ont permis l'analyse à la fois des variables individuelles et nationales dans un modèle hiérarchique. Les résultats ont démontré que la syndicalisation était associée de manière positive au sexe (féminin), au niveau de scolarité et au collectivisme institutionnel; la syndicalisation était aussi associée, de manière négative, au travail (superviseurs et professionnels) et à l'orientation vers la performance. ,867 employees, 32 countries). Union membership was positively related to GloBE's institutional Collectivism, but not Hofstede's individualism; and was negatively related to both Performance orientation (GloBE) and Masculinity (Hofstede), suggesting that differences in culture measures may account for prior inconsistent findings. Curvilinear relationships between union membership and age (inverted U-shaped) and Uncertainty avoidance (U-shaped) suggest that Uncertainty avoidance may explain why younger and older people were less likely to be union members.

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Hofstede's model of national cultural differences and their consequences: A triumph of faith - a failure of analysis

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