Fitting Person-Environment Fit Theories into a National Cultural Context

Organizational Fit: Key Issues and New Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 222-240

  Lee, Yih Teen ^a   Ramaswami, Aarti ^b  

^a IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Cultural values on PE fit; Culturally embedded PE; Cultures and fit misfit; Fit and cross cultural; Mental programming; Mentor prot g fit; National culture and PE; Needs supplies fit dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888659697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118320853.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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