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CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD BY MICHAEL MINKOV FOREWORD BY GEERT HOFSTEDE UnitedKingdom(cid:2)NorthAmerica(cid:2)Japan India(cid:2)Malaysia(cid:2)China EmeraldGroupPublishingLimited HowardHouse,WagonLane,BingleyBD161WA,UK Firstedition2011 Copyrightr2011EmeraldGroupPublishingLimited Reprintsandpermissionservice Contact:[email protected] Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,transmittedinany formorbyanymeanselectronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise withouteitherthepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisheroralicencepermitting restrictedcopyingissuedintheUKbyTheCopyrightLicensingAgencyandintheUSAby TheCopyrightClearanceCenter.Noresponsibilityisacceptedfortheaccuracyof informationcontainedinthetext,illustrationsoradvertisements.Theopinionsexpressed inthesechaptersarenotnecessarilythoseoftheEditororthepublisher. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-85724-613-4 Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Howard House, Environmental Management System has been certified by ISOQAR to ISO 14001:2004 standards Awarded in recognition of Emerald’s production department’s adherence to quality systems and processes when preparing scholarly journals for print Contents Quotes vii Acknowledgements ix Foreword xi Introduction xv 1. The Study of Culture and its Origins 1 2. Major Cross-Cultural Studies 45 3. Industry versus Indulgence 51 4. Monumentalism versus Flexumility 93 5. Hypometropia versus Prudence 137 6. Exclusionism versus Universalism 179 7. A Cultural Map of the World 225 8. Conclusions and Final Remarks 237 Research Notes 241 References 257 About the Author 281 Author Index 283 Subject Index 291 Studying culture is asking for trouble. Geert Hofstede Dutch organizational psychologist and cultural anthropologist Ithasbeentheofficeofotherstoreassure; ourstounsettle. Clifford Geertz American cultural anthropologist If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing. Sir Kingsley William Amis English novelist, poet, and critic Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my illustrious mentor and personal friend, Geert Hofstede, the father of modern cross-cultural research. He guided my academic development for a decade, served as an official reviewer of my PhD dissertation in social anthropology, and recommended my work for publication by leading international publishing houses. I have found Geert to be not only a great academic but also a remarkable person. For this book and for my academic work in general, I am also indebted to a number of other scholars: VesselinBlagoev,Vice-rectorofInternationalUniversityCollege,Sofia,Bulgaria, for supporting my academic endeavors. Ronald Inglehart, Chairman of the World Values Survey, for generously sharing the results of the World Values Survey with the whole world, providing me personally with some of his research findings and allowing me to reproduce copyrighted material. Romie Littrell of the Auckland University of Technology, Mark Peterson of the Florida Atlantic University, Peter Smith of the University of Sussex (emeritus), and Evert van de Vliert of the University of Groningen (emeritus), for writing positive reviews of my work and helping me with constructive suggestions for improvement. Melvin Ember, the late editor of Cross-Cultural Research, where I published my firstpeer-reviewedcross-culturalstudies.Melvinbelievedinmyworkandsupported it despite the novel and bold elements in it.
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