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...

Introduction -- Current State of Research -- Evaluation and Selection of Existing Cultural Taxonomies -- Introduction to the Synthesis of the Universal Dimensions of Culture (UDCs) -- The Environment - One Connecting Concept? -- Time – One Connecting Concept? -- Human Behavior - One Connecting...

Based on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart - when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest.