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Title: Cultures and Organizations by Geert Hofstede ISBN: 0-07-029307-4 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Cultural conundrums
Comment: Culture matters - that is surely the case, but the issue is whether it matters in the specific ways posited by this book, and it is not at all clear that it does. Setting aside the problematic nature of the notion of "national" culture in multiethnic societies (plus issues of class, generation etc.), Hofstede argues on the basis of surveys given to IBM employees circa. 1970 that national cultures can be understood along four (or possibly five) dimensions. He has a tendency to invoke anecdotes as ex post rationalizations of whatever statistical result he obtains. Although Hofstede must be given his due as a pioneer in this field, subsequent research attempting to validate this analysis has yielded mixed results, and by and large Hofstede's IBM data has been superseded by the more extensive World Values Survey data. Readers with a more scientific bent who want to examine in detail the evidence that underlies (or does not underlie) the arguments that Hofstede makes are directed to the companion volume, "Culture's Consequences." Nevertheless, it is a fast and easy read, presumably one of its attractions in management courses.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great: The jargon only prevents perfection
Comment: Together with Nancy Adler's 'International dimensions' is one of the best sources of cross-cultural social and business behaviour.In some points, the jargon is excessive though. Highly recommendable for cross-cultural analysts.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wow!!!!Headache....
Comment: This book is excellent on showing how countries and states where influenced by each other. The only problem I had with it was it was a college level book and I am still in high-school. So i did have to go back and reread paragraphs every so often. But this book asks many important questions and gives great insight on how and why the different world cultures spread.
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Title: Riding The Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business by Charles Hampden-Turner, Fons Trompenaars ISBN: 0786311258 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Culture's Consequences : Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations Across Nations by Geert Hofstede ISBN: 0803973241 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 08 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories, and Synthetic Cultures by Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul B. Pedersen, Geert Hofstede ISBN: 1877864900 Publisher: Intercultural Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall ISBN: 0385124740 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1971 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: When Cultures Collide by Richard D. Lewis ISBN: 1857880870 Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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