The Routledge Companion to Business Ethics

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Cross-cultural management ethics in multinational commerce

Terence Jackson

Despite the fact that the foundations of extant cross-cultural management studies have been based on concepts of national values, little of the theory developed has been translated into an understanding of ethics across different cultures. Where the step from descriptive values to normative ethics has been taken, this is often in an uncritical way. Much of the foundation of cross-cultural management studies based on differences in values has been criticized over the last few years, with Geert Hofstede’s (1980a) seminal work receiving particular attention. Despite a number of studies that have sought to offer alternatives or updates to Hofstede’s now ageing study, ...