International business (IB) research has predominantly relied on value constructs to account
for the influence of societal culture, notably Hofstede's cultural dimensions. While …

International human resource management has become a mature discipline in the last 30
years. As a sub-discipline of social sciences, international human resource management is …

Paradigms are basic assumptions about how social reality is perceived, understood and
explained. Whereas most research is based on a single paradigm, few empirical papers …

Critical perspectives on cross-cultural management (CCM) are increasingly present in our
research community; however, they are spread over multiple research fields (eg …

Cross-cultural management (CCM) research comprises a variety of disciplines with different
thematic, paradigmatic, and methodological assumptions. Since there has been no …

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In this article we integrate findings from interviews and ethnographic case studies to explore
issues of culture and identity in Japanese—Dutch work relations in two different contexts …

ÔPrimecz, Romani, and Sackmann provide managers and educators with a powerful
framework that goes beyond simple categorization of national and cultural differences in …

More than a quarter century of research on the cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates has
not yet led to satisfactory results. A vast amount of mainly quantitative studies have produced …

Cross-cultural management research made an international breakthrough from a macro-
comparative perspective with the seminal work of Hofstede. The main purpose of early …