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Workshop on Cultural Dimensions of Organizational Studies

  • 1.  Workshop on Cultural Dimensions of Organizational Studies

    Posted 03-22-2006 07:57
    For more information contact Mikael S�ndergaard [msoendergaard@econ.au.dk]




    This Ph.D. workshop/conference focuses on the cultural dimensions of
    organizational studies and comparative management research. The workshop
    participants discuss their research by presenting and discussing papers.
    Furthermore, the workshop allows us to discuss some of the basic and classic
    research traditions as well as recent developments of cross cultural
    management research. Some of the fundamental readings will be discussed.



    Central to the PhD workshop is Hofstede's study which continues to shape the
    field. In 1980 Hofstede published an influential study which changed
    international organizational studies. Hofstede's findings have since turned
    into a Kuhnian paradigm, which at times has been overused and even abused.



    A careful reading of Hofstede's work is essential to any scholarship that
    deals with organization, cross-cultural management and national culture. The
    second (2001) edition of Hofstede's book provides what is to date the most
    thorough review of international organizational studies research. Even more
    recent applications of Hofstede's work is be published in a revised and
    updated version of his popular text "Cultures and Organizations: Software of
    the Mind" (2005) (with Gert Jan Hofstede as a co-author).



    The other faculty members have in their own work been in various ways
    inspired by Hofstede. Peterson has been involved in a number of large
    cross-national studies with various approaches, and he is eminently able to
    put Hofstede's work in context. Gert Jan Hofstede will focus on
    cross-cultural methodology and teaching methods. Jan Selmer and Anne-Katrin
    Neyer will share their experiences of facing the challenges of conducting
    cross-cultural

    research.



    For more information contact Mikael S�ndergaard [msoendergaard@econ.au.dk]




    This is the workshop outline



    Global and Cross Cultural Management

    May 8th - 12th 2006

    University of Aarhus



    Monday May 8



    09.00 - 09.30 Registrations and Introduction: Mikael S�ndergaard



    09.30 - 12.00 Fundamental Assumptions in Cross Cultural Management Research:
    Mark Peterson, Facilitator.



    Readings:

    Child, J., 1981, Culture, Contingency and Capitalism in the Cross-National
    Study of Organizations, Research in Organizational Behavior, JAI Press Inc.,
    vol. 3. 303-356.



    Hofstede, G., 1980) Motivation, Leadership, and Organization: Do American
    Theories Apply Abroad?", Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 9 no. 1, 42-63.



    Adler, Nancy, J., (1983), A Typology of Management Studies Involving
    Culture, Journal of International Business Studies, 14, 2. 29 - 47.



    Boyacigiller, N. & Adler, N.J. (1991). The parochial dinosaur:
    Organizational science in a global context. Academy of Management Review,
    16, 262-290.



    12.00 - 13.00 Lunch



    13.00 - 14.30 Cross Cultural Management: Anthropology Field Research: Mark
    Peterson, Facilitator.



    Readings:



    Malinowski, B 1965 (1920s), Soil tilling and agricultural rites in the
    Trobriand Islands., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp 2 - 23.



    Mead, M. (1928/1949). Coming of age in Samoa. New York: Morrow, (7-18).



    Murdock, George P. (1940). The cross-cultural survey. American
    Sociological Review, 5, 361-370.



    Kluckhohn, F.R. & Strodtbeck, F.L. (1961). Variations in value
    orientations. Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson, (1-32).



    14.30- 14.45 Break



    14.45- 16.00 Anthropology today and at work for Management: The case of
    Weekend Avisen. CEO and Editor in Chief, Dr. Anne Knudsen





    16.00 - 16.15 Break



    16.15 - 17.45 Presentations of workshop papers









    Tuesday May 9



    09.00- 10.45 Perspectives Underlying International Organizational Studies
    from Sociology

    and Economics; Mark F . Peterson, Facilitator.



    Readings:

    Parsons, T. (1947). "The modern Western institutional system." Introduction
    to Weber, M. The theory of social and economic organization. New York: Free
    Press, . (78-86).



    Inkeles, A. & Levinson, D.J. (1969). National character: The study of modal
    personality and sociocultural systems. In G. Lindzey & E. Aronson, eds.,
    The handbook of social psychology, Vol. 4. Reading, Ma: Addison-Wesley
    (418-452).



    Rokeach, M. (1973). The nature of human values. New York: Free
    Press,(3-52)



    Boyacigiller, N.A., Kleinberg, M.J., Phillips, M.E. & Sackmann, S.A. (2002).
    Conceptualizing culture: Elucidating the Streams of Research in
    International Cross-Cultural Management, In Punnett & Shenkar, eds.,
    Handbook for International Management Research., University of Michigan
    Press.



    10.45 - 11.00 Break



    11.00 - 12.00 Comparative Management Analysis before Hofstede: Mark F.
    Peterson and Mikael S�ndergaard, Facilitators



    Readings :

    Haire, M., Ghiselli, E.F. & Porter, L.W. (1966). Managerial thinking: An
    international study. New York: Wiley, pp. 1-35.



    Tannenbaum, A.S., Kavcic, B., Rosner, M., Vianello, M. & Wieser, G. (1974).
    Hierarchy in organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp. 1-25. 50 - 80



    12.00 - 13.00 Lunch



    13.00 - 14.00 Comparative Management Analysis before Hofstede: Mark F.
    Peterson and Mikael S�ndergaard, Facilitators



    Readings :

    England, G.W. and Lee, R., (1971) Organizational Goals and expected
    behaviour among American, Japanese and Korean Managers - A Comparative
    Study, Academy of ManagementJournal, 14, 425 - 438.



    Dunlop, J.T., Harbison, F.H., Kerr, C. & Myers, C.A. (1975). Industrialism
    and industrial man reconsidered. Princeton, N.J.: Inter-University Study of
    Human Resources in National Development, 1-51.



    14.00 - 14.15 Break



    14.15 - 15.45 Workshop participants present papers



    15.45- 16.00 Break



    16.00 - 17.00 Workshop participants present papers





    Wednesday May 10



    09.00 - 12.00 Comparative Management Analysis Hofstede: Geert Hofstede,
    facilitator.



    Readings

    Hofstede, Geert (2001,2003) Values and Culture. Culture's
    consequences: International differences in work-related values, 2nd ed.
    Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1-40.



    Hofstede, G. (2001, 2003). Data Collection, Treatment and
    Validation, 41-77.



    Hofstede, G., 2004, Epi-dialogue, in Comparing Cultures: Dimensions of
    Culture in a Comparative Perspective, Vinken, Soeter and Ester, eds.



    Hofstede, Geert, Power Distance, 79-143



    Hofstede, Geert, (2001, 2003) Uncertainty avoidance, 145-208.



    Hofstede, Geert (2001,2003). Individualism/collectivism.. 209-278



    Hofstede, Geert (2001, 2003). Masculinity/femininity. 279-350.



    Hofstede, G, Hofstede, GJ, (2005) Yesterday, Now or Later?, chapter 6, CO2,



    Hofstede, G., 2006, Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model in
    Context". In W.J. Lonner, D.L. Dinnel, S.A. Hayes & D.N. Sattler, Online
    Readings in Psychology and Culture, Unit 2: Conceptual, Methodological and
    Ethical Issues in Psychology and Culture. Bellingham WA: Center for
    Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University.





    12.00- 13.00 Lunch



    13.00 - 14.00The Hofstede Debate: Geert Hofstede, facilitator.



    Kirkman, B.L., Lowe, K.B., and Gibson, C.B., Two Decades of Culture's
    Consequences: A Review of the Empirical Research on Hofstede's Cultural
    Values Framework,



    Peterson, M.F., Book Review of "Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values,
    Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations across Nations, 2nd ed., by Geert
    Hofstede, ASQ, 2003, 48 (1), 127 - 131.



    McSweeney, B.; 2002, Hofstede's Model of National Cultural Differences and
    Their Consequences: A triumph of faith - A failure of analysis, Human
    Relations, 55, 1, 89 - 118.



    Hofstede, G., 2002, Dimensions do not exist: A reply to Brendan McSweeney,
    Human Relations, 55, 2





    14.00 - 14.15 Break





    14.15 - 16.30 Comparative Management Practices Research: Mark F. Peterson,
    facilitator



    Readings:

    House, R.J. & Javidan, M. (2004). Overview of GLOBE. In House, R.J.,
    Hanges, P.J., Javidan, M., Dorfman, P.W. & Gupta, V. (eds). Culture,
    leadership, and organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies. Thousand
    Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 9-28



    Gupta, V., Hanges, P.J., & Dorfman, P.W. (2002). Cultural Clusters:
    Methodology and Findings. Journal of World Business, 37, 11-15.



    Peterson, M.F. (2001). International collaboration in organizational
    behavior research. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 22, 59-81.



    Peter B. Smith, Mark F. Peterson and Shalom H. Schwartz with Abd Halim
    Ahmad, Debo Akande, Jon Aarum Andersen, Sabino Ayestaran, Massimo Bellotto,
    Stephen Bochner, Victor Callan, Reka Czegledi, Carlos Davila, Bjorn Ekelund,
    Pierre-Henri Fran�ois, Eduardo Gamas, Gert Graversen, Michael Hadani,
    Charles Harb, Jorge Jesuino, Aristotle Kantas, Lyudmila Karamushka, Paul
    Koopman, Ersin Kusdil, Kwok Leung, Pavla Kruzela, Sigmar Malvezzi, Andrew
    Mogaji, Shahrenaz Mortazawi, John Munene, Ken Parry, B.J. Punnett, Mark
    Radford, Arja Ropo, Jose Saiz, Grant Savage, Bernadette Setiadi, Ritch
    Sorenson, Erna Szabo, Punyacha Teparakul, Aqeel Tirmizi, Sevda Tsvetanova,
    Conrad Viedge, Carolyn Wall, Zhong Ming Wang, Vladimir Yanchuk and Irina
    Zinovieva. Cultural Values, Sources of Guidance and their Relevance to
    Managerial Behavior: A 47 Nation Study. Journal of Cross Cultural
    Psychology, 33, 188-208.



    Schwartz, S.H. and Sagiv, L., (1995), Identifying culture-specifics in the
    content and structure of values, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 26,
    92 - 115.







    16.30 - 18.00 Presentation of Research projects: Geert Hofstede






    Thursday May 11



    09.00 - 10.00 Methodology in Comparative Management Study: Traditions Mark
    Peterson, Facilitator



    Readings

    Peterson, Mark F., "Quantitative methods in cross-cultural management
    research: Trends and equivalence issues" (with T. K. Peng and Yuh-Ping
    Shyi). Journal of Organizational Behavior, 1991, 12, 87-108.



    Morris, M.W., Leung, K., Ames, D. & Lickel, B. (1999). Views from inside
    and outside: Integrating emic and etic insights about culture and justice
    judgment. Academy of Management Review, 24, 781-796.



    Peterson, M.F. & Pike, K.L. (2002). Emics and etics for organizational
    studies: A lesson in contrast from linguistics. International Journal of
    Cross Cultural Management, 2002, 2, 5-19.



    10.00 - 12.00 Methodology in Comparative Management Study: Level of Analysis
    Geert Hofstede & Gert Jan Hofstede,Facilitators



    Readings

    Hanges, P.J. & Dickson, M.W. (2004). The development and validation of the
    GLOBE culture and leadership scales. In House, R.J., Hanges, P.J., Javidan,
    M., Dorfman, P.W. & Gupta, V. (eds). Culture, leadership, and
    organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage,.
    122-151



    Peterson, M.F., Castro S.L., Measurement Metrics at Aggregate Levels of
    Analysis: Implicationf for Organization Culture Research and the Globe
    Project, Leadership Quarterly, (in press)



    Hofstede, G., Review of the Globe Study, JIBS, in press

    .

    Peterson, M.F., review of Culture, Leadership and Organizations: The Globe
    Study of 62 Societies, ASQ, 2004.641 - 647.



    Smith, P.B., Dugan, S. & Trompenaars, F. (1996). National culture and the
    values of organizational employees: A dimensional analysis across 43
    nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 27, 231-264.





    12.00 - 13.00 Lunch



    13.00 - 14.30 Methodology Research Design of a cross-cultural research
    project: : The Craft of empirical cross cultural research, the choices to
    be made

    Jan Selmer ASB & Anne-Katrin Neyer, LBS, Facilitators



    Reading

    handouts





    14.45 - 15.45 Teaching cross cultural research: class room experiences: Jan
    Selmer Gert Jan Hofstede, Facilitators



    Reading

    Handouts



    15.45 - 17.30 Teaching cross cultural research: class room exercises: Gert
    Jan Hofstede, facilitator



    Reading

    Handouts





    17.30 - 18.30 Teaching cross cultural management. Simulation: The
    Rand�mian Baloon

    Factory. Mikael S�ndergaard , Facilitator





    19.30 Dinner in town




    Friday May 12



    09.00 - 12.00 Recent Trends in Comparative Management Research: Geert
    Hofstede, Mark F. Peterson, Mikael S�ndergaard, Gert Jan Hofstede,
    Facilitators





    Readings

    Hofstede, G., McCrae, R.R., (2004), Personality and Culture Revisited:
    Linking Traits and Dimensions of Culture, Cross-Cultural Research, vol 38,
    52 - 88.



    Inglehart, R. (1997). Modernization and postmodernization: Cultural,
    economic and political change in 43 societies. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
    University Press,. 3-50.



    Esmer, Y. (2003). Is there an Islamic civilization? In R. Inglehart (ed.),
    Human values and social change: Findings from the values surveys. Leiden:
    Brill, 35-68.



    Lenartowicz, T. & Roth, K. (2001). Does subculture within a country matter?
    A cross-cultural study of motivational domains and business performance in
    Brazil. Journal of International Business Studies, 32, 305-325



    Smith, P.B., Nations, (2004) Cultures, and Individuals, New Perspectives and
    Old Dilemmas, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, vol. 35, 6 - 12.



    Kostova, T. & Roth, K. (2002). Adoption of an organizational practice by
    subsidiaries of multinational corporations: Institutional and relational
    effects. Academy of Management Journal, 45, 215-233.



    Maznevski, M et al, (2002), Cultural Dimensions at the Individual Level of
    Analysis, International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2., 275 - 295.



    Oyserman, D., Coon, H.M & Kemmelmeier, M. (2002). Rethinking
    individualism and collectivism: Evaluation of theoretical assumptions and
    meta-analyses. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 3-72.



    Schimmack, U., Oishi, S., & Diener, E., (2005), Individualism: A Valid and
    Important Dimension of Cultural Differences Between Nations, Personality and
    Social Psychology Review, 9, 1, 17 - 31.



    Lunch 12.00 - 13.00



    13.00 - 14.00 EVALUATION Mikael S�ndergaaard





    15.00 - 17.30 Visit at Mosegaard, A guided tour in the Viking Culture







    18.00 END OF WORKSHOP