Is National Culture a Meaningful Concept? Cultural Values Delineate Homogeneous National Clusters of In-Country Regions

Cross-Cultural Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-159

  Minkov, Michael ^a,b   Hofstede, Geert ^c  

^a VARNA UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cultural distance; national culture; national regions; values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859868268     PISSN: 10693971     EISSN: 15523578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069397111427262     Document Type: Article

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