Writing this chapter started with a question: Are work motivation theories influenced by an
ideology? To answer this question might be said to be quite easy, and at the same time …

In his classic study of bureaucracy, French sociologist Michael Crozier observed long ago
that while managers have long understood that organization structures, attitudes, and …

I do not pretend to give here a totally impartial and unbiased account of the issue that I have
proposed myself for analysis and evaluation. I could have, of course, put on the role of the …

In describing and comparing different cultures, one runs the risk of unwarranted
stereotyping. However, in our case it is probably fair to say that the Japanese and Dutch …

Summary Almost 2,500 years ago, the Chinese philosopher Confucius observed that all
people are basically the same; it is only their habits that are different. Almost four hundred …

" Culture's Consequences", is possibly one of the most exciting books in the field to emerge
in recent years. It looks at managers in as many as forty countries and tries to generalise …

The article by Wells is a chance to ponder on the different conceptions of culture endorsed
by the natural sciences and by the social sciences. The standard definition of culture among …

On April27, 2001 an interesting conference took place at Tilburg University on the subject of
recent developments in research on cross-cultural comparison of organizations and human …

It is rare in this day of information overload for a book to make a significant impact on one's
thinking, but this book did make an impact on mine. Perhaps the overwhelming empirical …

A theory of the types of values on which cultures can be compared is presented and
validated with data from 49 nations from around the world. Seven types of values are …