What did GLOBE really measure? Researchers’ minds versus respondents’ minds

By G. Hofstede. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. Todd Weber
2. William A. Gentry
3. G. Sadri
4. Thomas Hutzschenreuter
5. Johannes C. Voll
6. G. Hofstede
7. John Antonakis
8. J. Selmer

In Social Psychology

1. V. Taras
2. Piers Steel
3. G. Hofstede
4. Bradley L Kirkman
5. Peter B. Smith
6. E. Hardin
7. Thomas Hutzschenreuter
8. Dan S. Chiaburu

In Sociology and Political Science

1. V. Taras
2. Piers Steel
3. Peter B. Smith
4. Seth J. Schwartz
5. Bradley L Kirkman
6. E. Hardin
7. G. Hofstede
8. William A. Gentry

Citations in the corpus

• Breaking Through the Cultural Clutter: A Comparative Assessment of Multiple Cultural and Institutional Frameworks (2008, background): “The introduction of alternative frameworks has sparked a vigorous debate as to which framework is more comprehensive, parsimonious, and methodologically valid (Hofstede, 2006; Javidan et al., 2006; Steenkamp, 2001).”
• Organizational Support and Citizenship Behaviors: A Comparative Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis (2015, methodology): “Hofstede (2006) explains uncertainty avoidance culture in a country as a ‘‘collective anxiety level in view of the unknown and the unfamiliar’’ and is ‘‘correlated across countries with measures of anxiety symptoms, neuroticism, and lower subjective well-being’’ (p. 888).”
• Radius of Trust (2008, background): “In other words, the GLOBE’s questions were about society (e.g., “In this society, leaders encourage group loyalty even if individual goals suffer”), not about the respondents’ own values, beliefs, and feelings (see also Hofstede, 2006).”
• A framework to update Hofstede's cultural value indices: economic dynamics and institutional stability (2008, result): “However, there are still unbridgeable conceptual and methodological differences between the two studies (Hofstede, 2006).”
• Do culture and religion mitigate earnings management? Evidence from a cross-country analysis (2011, neutral): “The GLOBE data ( House et al , 2004 ) are more comprehensive but differ both conceptually and methodologically from the original Hofstede (1980) approach in complex ways that are little understood ( Hofstede, 2006 ).”
• Explaining the negative correlation between values and practices: A note on the Hofstede–GLOBE debate (2009, background): “Hofstede (2006) retorts that the "counterintuitive" result is due to design flaws in the questionnaires used in the GLOBE study, arguing that respondents are unable to describe practices independent of their values.”
• Performance effects of “added cultural distance” in the path of international expansion: the case of German multinational enterprises (2008, methodology): “However, Hofstede (2006) himself has recently cast doubts on the validity of the GLOBE dimensions, building upon an analysis he conducted and suggesting that the nine GLOBE dimensions could be reduced to five.”
• When Preference Is Not Satisfied but the Individual Is (2014, positive): “We used Hofstede’s (2001) PD index to group respondents from high and low PD countries.”
• Entrepreneurial orientation and new venture performance in emerging markets: the mediating role of opportunity recognition (2021, background): “1 Note that Hofstede’s Uncertainty Avoidance dimension explicitly does not measure risk taking behavior (de Mooij 2013; Hofstede 2006).”