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Cultures and organizations : software of the mind

Author: Geert H Hofstede; Gert Jan Hofstede
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2005.
Series: Successful strategist series.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : Rev. and expanded 2nd edView all editions and formats
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"The world is a more dangerously divided place today than it was at the end of the Cold War. This despite the spread of free trade and the advent of digital technologies that afford a degree of global connectivity undreamed of by science fiction writers fifty years ago. What is it that continues to drive people apart when cooperation is so clearly in everyone's interest? Are we as a species doomed to perpetual  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Geert H Hofstede; Gert Jan Hofstede
ISBN: 0071439595 9780071439596
OCLC Number: 57069196
Notes: Subtitle on cover: Intercultural cooperation and its importance for survival.
Description: xii, 434 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1 Introduction: the rules of the social game --
2 More equal than others --
3 I, we, and they --
4 He, she, and (s)he --
5 What is different is dangerous --
6 Yesterday, now, or later? --
7 Pyramids, machines, markets, and families: organizing across nations --
8 The elephant and the stork: organizational cultures --
9 Intercultural encounters --
10 Surviving in a multicultural world.
Series Title: Successful strategist series.
Responsibility: Geert Hofstede and Gert Jan Hofstede.
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A veritable atlas of cultural values. It is based on cross-cultural research conducted in seventy countries for more than thirty years and describes a revolutionary theory of cultural relativism and  Read more...

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