Culture Matters

Chapter 6

Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner: Seven Cultural Dimensions: A Mirror Image of Problem-Solving in the Workplace

Introduction

In the late 1980s, Fons Trompenaars emerged as a respected theorist who contributed complementary cultural dimensions to the field of cross-cultural management. Together with Charles Hampden-Turner, he established a consultation firm called the Centre for International Business Studies, and, since then, they have worked with numerous leading multinational corporations (MNCs) including British Petroleum, Philips, IBM, Heineken, AMD, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, ABN AMRO, ING, PepsiCo, and Honeywell. They have also conducted more than a thousand cross-cultural ...