Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions Opinion Paper

What do you make of Hofstede's cultural dimensions? Do you find them to be a useful tool in International Business? Between 1967 and 1973 Professor Geert Hofstede surveyed over 100,000 IBM employees in 49 different countries about their preferences in terms of work-related values. The result was a number of seminal works on cultural values and differences published during the 1980s and 1990s. These results have had a profound influence on the field and practice of international management. The …

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