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Cross-Cultural Analysis
The Science and Art of Comparing the World's Modern Societies and Their Cultures



June 2012 | 504 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture's Consequences, the classic work published by Geert Hofstede, one of the most influential management thinkers in today's times. Hofstede's original work introduced a new research paradigm in cross-cultural analysis: studying cultural differences through nation-level dimensions (complex variables defined by intercorrelated items). This paradigm has been subsequently used by hundreds of prominent scholars all over the world and has produced solid results.

This new text takes the next step: It critically examines in one comprehensive volume the current, prevalent approaches to cross-cultural analysis at the level of nations that have been developed since Hofstede's work, offering students and researchers the theoretical and practical advantages and potential pitfalls of each method.

The book is structured into four distinct parts. Parts I and II focus on the main theoretical and statistical issues in cross-cultural analysis using Hofstede's approach and the different research methods now associated with it. Part II consists of presentations of all well-known (and some lesser known) large-scale cross-cultural studies since Hofstede's work that have explained cross-cultural variation in terms of dimensional models. Part III summarizes the main conclusions to be drawn from the presentations in Part II and l explains how the proposed models have contributed to our practical understanding of cross-cultural diversity.


 
Contents
 
Foreword
 
Introduction
 
PART 1: Understanding "Culture"
 
The Concept of Culture
 
Main characteristics of culture
 
The elements of culture
 
PART 2: Studying Culture
 
Types of cross-cultural studies: merits and pitfalls
 
Theoretical versus empirical perspectives
 
Cross-cultural comparability
 
Paper-and-pencil studies
 
Data Analysis
 
PART 3: Major Cross-Cultural Studies
 
Cultural dimensions across modern nations
 
PART 4: A Summary of the Observed Cultural Differences Across the Globe
 
Appendix
 
References

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