Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business, 4th Edition
by Fons Trompenaars, Peter Woolliams
Acknowledgments
SINCE THE first edition of this book in 1993, many people have contributed to its further development. We wish to thank all the colleagues of our consulting firm Trompenaars Hampden-Turner Consultancy B.V. They all have contributed in many ways to the fine-tuning of the data and development of the conceptual models.
It all started with my masters studies at the Free University of Amsterdam (VU) in which Professor Frits Haselhoff helped me use systems thinking as a foundation for looking at the world and its diversity. After being selected for a European PhD grant by Geert Hofstede, André Laurent, and Gunnar Hedlund, I was admitted to a PhD program at Wharton, Social Systems Sciences. In this mind-blowing program Russ Ackoff, ...
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