In a globalizing world, cross-national differences in values and business culture and understanding these differences … become increasingly central to a range of managerial issues. Studies of cultural (dis)similarities in the values of managers …,254 managers and are able, for the first time, to consider a sample of countries that is large and diverse enough to allow for …

competence so as to make themselves more effective, more humane and more socially skilled in a world that increasingly involves …