Review article

Cultures and organizations: Geert Hofstede's organizational cultures

Ranka Jeknić

Abstract

The paper firstly presents some results of the cross-cultural IBM's researches, or the Geert Hofstede's model of “national culture” and dimensions of values, and cross-organizational IRIC research on organizational culture and organizational dimensions of practices. Then it analyzes the impact of “national” on the organizational culture, and presentes some conclusions about the application of Hofstede's research findings in the context of managing cultural diversity among organizations or organizational cultures, and managing cultural diversity within organizations or organizational subcultures.

Keywords

Geert Hofstede; culture; „national culture“; cross-cultural IBM studies; organizational cultures; cross-organizational IRIC study; organizational subcultures etc

Hrčak ID:

66433

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/66433

Publication date:

5.4.2011.

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