The purpose of our exploratory study is to describe the characteristics of a sample of Central and East European students in business and engineering from their cultural assumption perspective. The cluster-distinctive cultural practices are: High Power Distance, In-group and Institutional...

Women’s entrepreneurship is increasingly important for creating new jobs and contributing to the social and economic growth of their societies, yet the interplay and nuances of women’s entrepreneurship and culture are currently understudied. In this special issue, we present eight empirical...

This paper investigated the relationship between leadership behaviors as well as Hofstede's five cultural dimensions in financial institutions. A questionnaire is collected from 678 employees of Taiwan financial institutions. Leadership behaviors are measured through Bass and Avolio's...

The current article traces back the scientific interest to cultural levels across the organization at the University of National and World Economy, and especially in the series of Economic Alternatives - an official scientific magazine, issued by this Institution. Further, a wider and critical...

The current article reviews complex multi-level frameworks as a modern and complicated technique of describing target organizational cultures. The essence, reasons of development, advantages and disadvantages and comparisons of/among the items in a set of ten frameworks, containing at least four...

This article outlines different stages in development of the national culture model, created by Geert Hofstede and his affiliates. This paper reveals and synthesizes the contemporary review of the application spheres of this framework. Numerous applications of the dimensions set are used as a...

I use textual analysis of 10-K forms to develop an estimate of the differences in corporate cultures of the combining firms, and find that greater cultural differences between the combining firms lead to higher synergistic gains in mergers. The effect of cultural differences on acquisition...

Departing from traditional project management, this article focuses on cultural and localized differences and influences on a specific project activity, and furthermore on the specific influences on large important critical projects (also called “megaprojects”). It analyzes relevant...

Hofstede’s cultural dimensions are used to analyze the Corruption Perception Index of 47 countries. Using a linear regression model with the CPI as the dependent variable and culture as the independent variables, 65% of the perceptions of corruption is explained by four of Hofstede's cultural...

This paper documents significant differences in the financing structure of small firms with managers of diverse cultural backgrounds. To separate the effect of culture from other factors that affect the financing structure of firms, we exploit cultural heterogeneity within a geographical area...