Africa is a continent of considerable cultural diversity. This diversity does not necessarily run
in parallel to the national boundaries that were created in Africa in the colonial period …

Vansina (1992) has identified the destruction of African cultural autonomy as one of the
causes for Africa s poor development performance. He has predicted the emergence of new …

Inhaltsangabe: Introduction: Recent global economic developments have led to a shift in
focus from the local to the global level and international companies are sending more and …

Extensive research has been conducted looking at the links between culture and
management. Studies have examined, among other components of the managerial activity …

Cross-cultural management research made an international breakthrough from a macro-
comparative perspective with the seminal work of Hofstede. The main purpose of early …

The chapter discusses culture and effective management practices in the African context.
Africa is described as a new emerging destination for international business and as an …

In quantitative-based research within the field of societal cultural studies, two of the foremost
research teams, namely Hofstede (2001) and House et al.(2004), have held the limelight …

Acknowledging culture as the “software of the mind”(Hofstede, 1994), this paper asserts that
international business, management, and marketing scholars have done too little to address …

Purpose Foreign economic partners and researchers on previous studies on national culture
have used Hofstede's (1980) model of Arab countries to represent Tunisia's culture. There is …

Empirical research using attitude scales, dominated by Hofstede's work (1980 [2001]),
enjoys an almost hegemonic status in the field of cross-cultural management. An exhaustive …