Are individual-level and country-level value structures different? testing hofstede's legacy with the schwartz value survey

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-151

  Fischer, Ronald ^a   Vauclair, C Melanie ^a   Fontaine, Johnny R J ^b   Schwartz, Shalom H ^c,d  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hofstede; Isomorphism; Multi level; Sampling; Schwartz; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 76249095005     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022109354377     Document Type: Article

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