Manageable inequalities (theoretical landscaping of cross-cultural studies)
by Slawomir Magala
European J. of International Management (EJIM), Vol. 1, No. 1/2, 2007

Abstract: Cross-cultural studies emerged from an unstable consensus. Cultural anthropologists, social psychologists, economists and sociologists of organisations, structured new managerial sciences. Researchers pushed for interdisciplinary compromises. Demands were voiced from 'inside' of formal bureaucracies. Organising and managing in required recognition and utilisation of inequalities – providing a pull for re-landscaping theories of cultures and organisations. A quarter of a century after the first publication of Hofstede's 'Culture's Consequences', three major approaches towards theoretical compromise and pragmatic social engineering emerged: the translation, globalisation and 'management of meaning' strategies. All of them converge on manageability of inequalities.

Online publication date: Sat, 24-Mar-2007

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