Chapter one: Delineating culture
Culture and its boundaries: The nation state as a cultural
entity | Why culture matters: Culture in business theory and practice (general
business, human resource management, international business, finance) | The
roots of culture: Formation and underpinnings | Culture under globalization:
Convergence vs. divergence | The clustering solution: Grouping cultures by
similarity and dissimilarity
Chapter two: Generating the clustering map
Selecting the input studies (Brodbeck, et al., 2000; Foley, 1992;
Project GLOBE – House et al., 2004; Hofstede, 2001; Inglehart and Baker, 2000; Merritt, 2000; Schwartz,
1999; Smith et al., 2002; Trompenaars’ database – Smith et al., 1995, 1996; Zander,
2005; Ronen and Shenkar, 1985) | Arriving
at the clustering map | The power of the
clustering map: Supporting analyses | Reading and understanding the clustering
map | Convergence vs. divergence
Chapter three: Eco‑cultural and economic correlates
Cultural correlates and their implications | Geography
(location, size, and distance from the equator) | Language | Religion | Economic
development | Economic freedom | Correlates and clusters: An integrated view
Chapter four: Attitudinal and behavioral dimensions
Understanding the scales and underlying dimensions | 1st
Group of dimensions: Focal actor - individual or group | 2nd Group of
dimensions: Relational Orientations (Deference, Gender marking, (In)tolerance
for ambiguity, Sources from which guidance is sought) | 3rd Group of
dimensions: Dynamic orientations (Long-term / future orientation, Humane orientation,
Performance orientation)
Including, for each group of dimensions: Relationship to
correlates; Behavioral implications of the two dimensional extremes.
Chapter five: A cluster by cluster review
The Arab Global Cluster | The Aegean Global Cluster | The Latin American Global Cluster | The East European Global Cluster | The Latin European Global Cluster | The Nordic Global Cluster | The Germanic Global Cluster | The Sub-Saharan African Global
Cluster | The Anglo Global
Cluster | The Confucian
Global Cluster | The South
Asian Global Cluster | Summary
of organizational-related dimensions
Including, for each cluster: The basics; Correlates; Organizational dimensions; Cluster managerial and organizational
implications; Cluster
overview.
