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Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business, 4th Edition
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Riding the Waves of Culture, Fourth Edition: Understanding Diversity in Global Business, 4th Edition

by Fons Trompenaars, Peter Woolliams
October 2020
Beginner
400 pages
10h 56m
English
McGraw-Hill
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How We Relate to Nature

Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner

THE LAST dimension of culture we shall consider in this book concerns the role people assign to their natural environment. This, like the other dimensions, is at the center of human existence. Man has from the beginning been besieged by natural elements: wind, floods, fire, cold, earthquakes, famine, pests, and predators. Survival itself has meant acting against and with the environment in ways to render it both less threatening and more sustaining. Constant action was originally an inescapable necessity.

Man’s economic development can be viewed as a gradual strengthening of his devices to keep nature at bay. In the course of human existence there has been a shift from a ...

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