Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist es, eine Abgrenzung des Modells von Geert Hofstede zu anderen Kulturtheorien zu ermitteln und ferner die Diskussion um das Hofstedesche Kulturmodell aufzuarbeiten. Darauf aufbauend soll die Anwendbarkeit und Gültigkeit des Hofstedeschen Ansatzes geprüft werden, da...

Lawyers routinely have to decide under considerable uncertainty. Those officially applying the law in force, like judges or public officials, often do not know all the facts of the case. And the legislator ought to know, understand and forecast much more than he usually does. Economics,...

This multidisciplinary study adopts econometric analysis for investigating how different characteristics determine the choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations collected in the main shopping streets of the cities of...

A people's culture, norms and habits are important determinants not just of the quality of social life but of economic progress and growth. In this paper we take the view that while the importance of culture is undeniable, the innateness of culture is not. We work here with a single example and...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe the status of culture studies within the field of international business research, and to examine how two main paradigms - essentialism and social constructivism - relate to the discourse in this field. We analyze the main points of the two...