Icelandic National Culture in Relation to Hofstede´s Five Dimensions
According to the cultural literature, societies are composed from many different culturally dissimilar countries (Hofstede, 2001; House et al., 2004). Geert Hofstede is one of many researchers who had developed a method to measure national culture. His research on national culture has had a great im...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:4ef61e33c84748f2a64bbb7bce925629 2023-05-15T16:50:06+02:00 Icelandic National Culture in Relation to Hofstede´s Five Dimensions Gylfi Dalmann Aðalsteinsson Svala Guðmundsdóttir Þórhallur Guðlaugsson 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2011.7.2.7 https://doaj.org/article/4ef61e33c84748f2a64bbb7bce925629 EN IS eng ice University of Iceland http://www.irpa.is/article/view/1143 https://doaj.org/toc/1670-6803 https://doaj.org/toc/1670-679X 1670-6803 1670-679X doi:10.13177/irpa.a.2011.7.2.7 https://doaj.org/article/4ef61e33c84748f2a64bbb7bce925629 Stjórnmál og Stjórnsýsla, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 353-368 (2011) Þjóðmenning VSM 94 menningarvíddir Political institutions and public administration (General) JF20-2112 Political science (General) JA1-92 article 2011 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2011.7.2.7 2022-12-30T22:11:57Z According to the cultural literature, societies are composed from many different culturally dissimilar countries (Hofstede, 2001; House et al., 2004). Geert Hofstede is one of many researchers who had developed a method to measure national culture. His research on national culture has had a great impact on how we understand and measure different culture differences. The purpose of this research is to investigate the characteristics of Icelandic national culture and compare with Bearden et.al. (2006) findings, where data was used from university students from four countries, Argentina, Austria, Japan and USA. In this study undergraduate students from the school of Social Science at the University of Iceland were asked to answer a questionnaire (VSM 94) and a total of 427 responses were usable with the response rate of 15%. According to the results, Icelandic national culture can be characterized by low power distance (PDI), high individualism (IDV), low masculinity (MAS), high uncertainty-avoidance (UAI) and average long-term orientation (LTO). Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Argentina Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration 7 2 353 |
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According to the cultural literature, societies are composed from many different culturally dissimilar countries (Hofstede, 2001; House et al., 2004). Geert Hofstede is one of many researchers who had developed a method to measure national culture. His research on national culture has had a great impact on how we understand and measure different culture differences. The purpose of this research is to investigate the characteristics of Icelandic national culture and compare with Bearden et.al. (2006) findings, where data was used from university students from four countries, Argentina, Austria, Japan and USA. In this study undergraduate students from the school of Social Science at the University of Iceland were asked to answer a questionnaire (VSM 94) and a total of 427 responses were usable with the response rate of 15%. According to the results, Icelandic national culture can be characterized by low power distance (PDI), high individualism (IDV), low masculinity (MAS), high uncertainty-avoidance (UAI) and average long-term orientation (LTO). |
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Icelandic National Culture in Relation to Hofstede´s Five Dimensions |
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Icelandic National Culture in Relation to Hofstede´s Five Dimensions |
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Icelandic National Culture in Relation to Hofstede´s Five Dimensions |
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