MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL: CULTURE'S CONSEQUENCES IN A VALUE TEST OF ITS OWN DESIGN

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ailon, Galit
• 署名单位: Bar Ilan University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2008.34421995
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 885-904
• 关键词: WORK-RELATED VALUES; ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS; MANAGERIAL CULTURE; HOFSTEDES MODEL; POST MODERNISM; individualism; POSTMODERNISM; dimensions; POLITICS; IMPACT

摘要

The paper offers a critical reading of Geert Hofstede's (1980) Culture's Consequences using an analytical strategy where the book is mirrored against itself and analyzed in terms of its own proposed value dimensions. Mirroring unravels the book's normative viewpoint and political subtext and exposes discursive interests in its research process. Making all this evident in the canonical book's own terms, this paper communicates critical concerns across paradigm boundaries. It indicates the need to reconsider concepts and convictions that predominate cross-cultural research and to adopt norms of reflexivity that transcend existing notions of cultural relativism.