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Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity

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Most prevalent theories in cross cultural management reduce the variability of individual relations to one single category, the national culture. Based on the assumption that the national cultural values determine individual behavior the individual’s behavior in different national cultures becomes predictable. This over simplistic model pretends to provide “easy” answers for a complex world. In this article a new approach to culture is developed where culture is seen as a permanent individual process. The focus is the individual in its complex correlation to the society. This approach leads to a holistic view of a human being as it takes beside the social relations the individual's personality and it’s reflexivity into account.

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  • Lenz, Rainer, 2008. "Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity," MPRA Paper 26629, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Lenz, Rainer & Steinhaus, Carol, 2010. "Internationalization of Universities as Internationalization of Bildung," MPRA Paper 26626, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Cross Cultural Management; Cultural Theories; Culture; National Culture; Diversity Management; New Kantianism;
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    JEL classification:

    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics
    • A23 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Graduate
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management
    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics

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