Emerging Cultural Profiles

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Emerging Cultural Profiles
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Hofstedes Maps
Small power distance Weak uncertainty
avoidance (Village market)
Large power distance Weak uncertainty
avoidance (Family or Tribe)
Uncertainty avoidance index
Source G. Hofstede (1991) Cultures and
Organizations, McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead.
Large power distance Strong uncertainty
avoidance (Pyramid of people Latin America)
Small power distance Strong uncertainty
avoidance (Well-oiled machine Germanic)
Power distance index