It was Weber's belief that bureaucracy and formalisation were the best methods of creating and maintaining a viable political structure independent of its leadership. The need for political stability and the necessity of performance efficiency in a traditional society plagued with inefficiency...

Purpose: Most international marketing studies, taking a sociological position, assume homogeneity within and heterogeneity between cultures. Taking a psychological position and based on the Mindscape Theory, the purpose of this paper is to support the hypothesis that there is intra-cultural and...

Purpose: Japanese American philosopher Magoroh Maruyama (1969) proposed the Mindscape theory, a macro model of cultural differences identification. The theory suggests inter-and intra-cultural heterogeneity and four major Mindscapes of H, I, S and G. He and his colleagues designed 64 graphic...

Purpose: This paper aims to replicate and expand an earlier study that constructed a measurement of international managers’ mindset. Design/methodology/approach: The paper used a test-retest statistical analysis to determine the reliability of the index of the managerial mindset developed by...

This textbook explores the theoretical and practical aspects of managing international business operations while also dealing with multi-cultural, multi-national and global issues of managing business expansion beyond the domestic market. A second, revised edition of Managing Internationally:...

Cultures and nations are losing their uniqueness to globalization forces as if they are indeed in a ‘global village’. Convergence forces of information explosion, ease of travel and transportation, and economic imperatives bring about homogeneity, and similarity to cultures,...