Comparing Cultures

Henk Vinken, Ph.D. (1997) in Social Sciences, Tilburg University, is Director of IRIC, Institute for Research on Intercultural Cooperation, at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and has published widely on culture, value change, youth, generations, and the life-course.Joseph Soeters (1954) is Professor of Social Sciences and Management at the Royal Netherlands's Military Academy and Professor of Organizational Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His main research interests focus on international cooperation between organizations; in addition, he works on Human Resources and diversity management (both in a Western and non-Western context). Peter Ester (1953) is Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Director of OSA, Institute for Labor Studies, and Program Director Civil Society at GLOBUS, Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development. He was visiting professor at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and ZUMA, Center for Survey Methodology and Analysis (Mannheim) and authored over 160 publications. Ester is the former chairman of the Dutch Association of Social and Cultural Sciences.

• ContributorsAcknowledgementsPrologueCulture’s consequences revisited, Pieter J.D. Drenth1. Cultures and dimensions. Classic perspectives and new opportunities in ‘dimensionalist’ cross-cultural studies, Henk Vinken, Joseph Soeters & Peter Ester2. Dimensions of culture beyond Hofstede, Harry C. Triandis3. Mapping and interpreting cultural differences around the world, Shalom H. Schwartz4. Individualism, autonomy, self-expression, and human development, Ronald Inglehart & Daphna Oyserman5. Methodological problems of value research, Wolfgang Jagodzinski6. The structural roots of values. An anthropological interpretation of Hofstede’s value dimensionsHans-Peter Müller & Patrick Ziltener7. Cultural nationalism in Japan. A starting point for comparing cultures, Kazufumi Manabe, Henk Vinken & Joseph Soeters8. Dimensions of culture in intra-cultural comparisons. Individualism/collectivism and family-related values in three generations, Gisela Trommsdorff, Boris Mayer & Isabelle Albert9. A cross-cultural analysis of immigrant and host values and acculturation orientations, Karen Phalet & Marc Swyngedouw10. Making maternity care work. The consequences of culture for health care systems, Raymond De Vries, Sirpa Wrede, Edwin Van Teijlingen, Cecilia Benoit & Eugene Declerq11. The cultural relativity of employee empowerment. A comparative study in the European hotel industry, Antonios K. Klidas12. Integrating the Hofstede dimensions and twelve aspects of negotiating behavior. A six country comparison, Lynn Metcalf & Allan BirdEpi-dialogue, Geert HofstedeReferences