Title: Stability and change in values and personality: response to Slawomir Magala

Authors: Gerhard Fink, Wolfgang Mayrhofer

Addresses: Research Institute for European Affairs, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Althanstrasse 39-45, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. ' Interdisciplinary Group of Management and Organisational Behaviour, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Althanstrasse 51, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Abstract: This article is a reply to the paper in this issue by Slawomir J. Magala |Commentary: Setting the theoretical stage|.

Keywords: knowledge cybernetics; social viable systems model; culture; Sorokin; Maruyama universes; recursion; domains; processes; social interactions; learning loops; self-reflexive actions; feedback; cultural standards; identity; personality profiling; value change; culture learning.

DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2010.031994

European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, 2010 Vol.1 No.2/3, pp.157 - 162

Published online: 03 Mar 2010 *

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