The GLOBE debate: Back to relevance

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hofstede, Geert
• 署名单位: Maastricht University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2010.31
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 1339-1346
• 关键词: GLOBE; Hofstede; cultural frameworks

摘要

This is a critical summary review of the debate about the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) study in JIBS and other journals between November 2006 and the present issue. Several contributors did not realize that GLOBE used three essential constructs taken from my publications in a sense entirely different from mine: values, practices, and organizational culture. Not recognizing the ensuing confusion, they had no answer for the question in my 2006 review: what did GLOBE really measure? If you do not know what you are talking about, you can continue arguing for ever. Beyond the fuzziness of what is measured, the debate leaves us with an even more fundamental question: what is the use of the GLOBE dimensions? Journal of International Business Studies (2010) 41, 1339-1346. doi:10.1057/jibs.2010.31