1st Edition
Hofstede Matters
Hofstede Matters offers an updated presentation of the evolving views of academics and teachers who have worked with Hofstede’s research findings since the publication of the first edition of Culture’s Consequences in 1980. The authors reflect on their changing beliefs about the concept of cultural dimensions that led to a radical change in the way cultures were dealt with in business schools across Europe and beyond. Hofstede’s dimensions made "thinking" about culture more accessible overnight by creating a conceptual framework that teachers, students, managers, and consultants could grasp and easily apply in international comparisons. The book shows the man behind the value dimensions framework through the eyes of teachers and academics many of whom dealt with Hofstede personally. Contemporary contributors as well as younger academic fellow researchers evaluate the past paradigms and look behind the scenes to better understand the developments of the more recent ones. Jointly, they try to decide if Hofstede still helps us to overcome uncertainty when confronted with actions undertaken with different values in mind. Did he nudge us in the desirable direction? Offering a unique analysis of the strengths, criticisms, and legacy of Hofstede’s work, this book will appeal to academics and students across disciplines including cross-cultural management, critical management studies, and international management.
Introduction
Sławomir Magala
Part 1: Hofstede Himself
1. In Memory of Geert Hofstede: A Pioneer in comparative cross-cultural management research and practice
Senem Yazici
2. Organizational culture – personality traits and Hofstede
Christiane Erten, Atila Karabag
Part 2: Hofstede’s rise and fall in context
3. Cultural relativity: the case of Hofstede
Sławomir Magala
4. War refugees and their plans for the future: Hofstede’s concept somewhere between Ukraine and Poland
Jakub Isański, Marek Nowak
5. Two teachers’ life with Hofstede
Roger Matthew Bell, Marie-Therese Claes
6. Hofstede’s Six. The career of a concept and the importance of context.
Wolfgang Mayrhofer
Part 3: Collaborators and Critics
7. Evolution of the Minkov-Hofstede Model: Parallels Between Objective and Subjective Culture
Michael Minkov
8. Hofstede’s imagined cultures
Brendan McSweeney
9. Hofstede’s consequences: Criticizing his oeuvre, and honoring the pioneer in the history of social sciences
Paweł Boski
10. Putting critique into context: an appraisal of four methodological objections to Hofstede
Michael Schiffinger
Part 4: Reviews and replications
11. Hofstede’s Consequences 1980 – 2022
Mikael Søndergaard
Conclusion
Christiane Erten
Biography
Sławomir J. Magala is a philosopher of science, cultural sociologist, retired professor of cross-cultural management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Visiting Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
Christiane Erten has experience in the professional and academic field with a focus on HRM, intercultural management and training, and leadership in SMEs. She has worked as Assistant Professor at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria, and still lectures at universities worldwide.
Roger Matthew Bell was Lecturer in cross-cultural management in the Department of People Management and Organization of ESADE, Barcelona, Spain, for 15 years.
Marie-Therese Claes is Head of the Institute for Gender and Diversity at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.
Senem Yazici (PhD) is Assistant Professor in the fields of Strategy and International Management at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and Council Member of the IACCM.
Atila Karabag (PhD) is Scientist at Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, and Council Member of the IACCM.
