The construction of the modern west and the backward rest: Studying the discourse of hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences

Journal of Multicultural Discourses

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-19

  Fougère, Martin ^a   Moulettes, Agneta ^b  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Critical management studies; Cross cultural management; Discourse analysis; Hofstede; Postcolonialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249144409     PISSN: 17447143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/md051.0     Document Type: Article

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