What did GLOBE really measure? Researchers' minds versus respondents' minds

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hofstede, Geert
• 署名单位: Tilburg University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400233
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 882-896
• 关键词: GLOBE; Hofstede; NATIONAL CULTURE; dimensions; masculinity; survey method

摘要

The GLOBE research program expanded the Hofstede model of five dimensions of national cultures to 18. A re-analysis based on GLOBE's 2004 summary book produced five meta-factors. One was significantly correlated with GNP/ capita and, from the Hofstede dimensions, primarily with Power Distance. Three more correlated significantly with Hofstede's Individualism, Uncertainty Avoidance and Long-Term Orientation. The fifth included the few GLOBE questions that related to Hofstede's dimension of Masculinity versus Femininity. GLOBE's respondents' minds classified the questions in a way that the researchers' minds did not account for and which closely resembles the original Hofstede model.