Avoiding uncertainty in Hofstede and GLOBE

Journal of International Business Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1294-1312

  Venaik, Sunil ^a   Brewer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

GLOBE; Hofstede; national culture; uncertainty avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958012356     PISSN: 00472506     EISSN: 14786990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jibs.2009.96     Document Type: Article

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