CHAPTER 4

Other Frameworks for Cultural Analysis

Contextualizing Background Information

Besides Geert Hofstede and Fons Trompenaars, other authors have developed theories in which they present frameworks for cultural analysis. The classifications originate in the social sciences and some of them are far more dated than the ones produced by business anthropologists. Even if it has never been explicitly acknowledged, most of the frameworks used in business derive from dimensions used in anthropology; therefore, most of the classifications overlap across authors.

The aim of this chapter is to add a few more frameworks to those already developed in previous chapters, in order to present readers with the most complete overview on dimensions for ...

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