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Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations, 2d ed.(Book Review)
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Administrative Science Quarterly
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March 1, 2003
- Author:
- Peterson, Mark F.
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2d ed Geert Hofstede. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001. 596 pp. $97.95.
The second edition of Hofstede's book about culture dimensions, Culture's Consequences, covers a tremendous amount of new literature and adds a modest amount of new data to the first edition of 1980. It updates literature about the now ubiquitous dimensions of individualism/collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity/femininity that he adapted from Inkeles and Levinson's (1969) review of the national character literature in the first edition. The book includes data on these dimensions for 13 nations or regions not included in the first edition that previously only had been ...