Countries, Corporations and Cultures: A Multilevel Approach
Autor Paul Melessenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 mai 2018
With expanding globalization, international enterprises exercise a growing influence on the culture of corporations in countries where they operate. Several frameworks are available for comparing both country and organizational cultures in a quantitative manner. Yet until now, the paradigm has been that these two types of culture need to be measured independently, presenting a major obstacle to the comparison of work cultures internationally. In this book, Paul Melessen develops a framework that incorporates multilevel modeling to bridge the gap between analyses of these two types of culture. Building upon and enriching existing theory, Melessen compares fifteen multinational corporations to demonstrate how organizational cultures differ from national cultures―and how they can be analyzed, described, and managed.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789463011389
ISBN-10: 9463011382
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 125 halftones
Dimensiuni: 171 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Eburon Academic Publishers
Colecția Eburon Academic Publishers
ISBN-10: 9463011382
Pagini: 300
Ilustrații: 125 halftones
Dimensiuni: 171 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Eburon Academic Publishers
Colecția Eburon Academic Publishers
Notă biografică
Paul Melessen studied police management at the Police Academy of the Netherlands; culture, organization, and management at the Free University of Amsterdam; and earned his PhD at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He has held managerial positions in a variety of international work environments, including universities of applied sciences in Amsterdam and The Hague.
Cuprins
Management Summary
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Acronyms
1 Introduction
2 Literature Overview and Central Questions
2.1 Globalisation and Work Culture
2.2 The central question
2.3 Definitions of and perspectives on culture
2.4 Conspectness of Culture
2.5 The Country Level of Analysis: National Culture
2.6 The Organisation Level Analysis: Corporate Culture
2.7 The Organisational Unit Level of Analysis
2.8 The Employee Level of Analysis
2.9 Dimensional frameworks of culture
2.10 Frameworks of national culture
2.11 The national culture theory jungle
2.12 Frameworks for organisatinal culture
2.13 Frameworks of national vis a vis corporate culture
2.14 Multilevel models of cultural differences
2.15 Discussion
2.16 Final central question
3 Methodology and Sample
3.1 The Questionnaire
3.2 Procedure
3.3 Methodology and Sampling
3.4 The sampling process
3.5 Units per level of analysis
3.6 Demographic and higher level variables
3.7 Missing Data
3.8 Discussion
3.9 Conclusion
4 Data analysis on the VSM items
4.1 Confirmatory Factor Analysis
4.2 Replication of the VSM dimensions with equations
4.3 Comparison with Hofstede
4.4 Equivalence of Cultures between Units of Analysis
4.5 Correlations within levels of analysis
4.6 Conclusions
5 Multilevel Models of the VSM dimensions
5.1 Multilevel modelling
5.2 Bayesian estimation of random group effects
5.3 Variance Partitioning Coefficients for nested models
5.4 Deviance Information Criteria
5.5 Discussion and intermediate conclusion
6 Multilevel Models of OCM Items
6.1 Exploratory Factor Analysis of OCM responses
6.2 Reliability Analysis
6.3 Variance Partitioning Coefficients of the OCM dimensions
6.4 Deviance Information Criteria
6.5 Discussion
7 The Multilevel Culture Dimensions Set
7.1 Selection process
7.2 Correlation analysis
7.3 The MLC Culture Model
7.4 Analysis of variance
7.5 Multilevel multivariate analysis
7.6 Sampling issues
7.7 Construct validation with secondary data
7.8 Cultural Cluster as the highest level of analysis
7.9 Discussion
Models with Predictor Variables
8.1 Invariance to predictor variables
8.2 Multilevel models with predictor variables
8.3 Interpretation of the MLC dimension models
8.4 Outlier Analysis
8.5 Discussion
9 Countries by Multilevel Culture Dimensions
9.1 MLC vectors at the country level
9.2 Qualitative evaluation of country cultures
9.3 Cluster Analysis
9.4 Discussion
10 Corporations by Multilevel Culture Dimensions
10.1 MLC vectors and their classification
10.2 Evaluation of corporate cultures
10.3 Country Organisations’ cultures
10.4 Conclusions
11 Conclusions
11.1 Summary and answer to the central question
11.2 Suggestions for future research
11.3 Implications for management and consultants
Reflections
Appendix A: Questionnaire
Appendix B: Feedback for Company Nu
Appendix C: Questionnaire’s Modes of Distribution
Appendix D: Country by Corporation Mean Scores
Appendix E: GLOBE Study Dimensions
Appendix F: Step-up Procedures multilevel models
Appendix G: National data
References
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Acronyms
1 Introduction
2 Literature Overview and Central Questions
2.1 Globalisation and Work Culture
2.2 The central question
2.3 Definitions of and perspectives on culture
2.4 Conspectness of Culture
2.5 The Country Level of Analysis: National Culture
2.6 The Organisation Level Analysis: Corporate Culture
2.7 The Organisational Unit Level of Analysis
2.8 The Employee Level of Analysis
2.9 Dimensional frameworks of culture
2.10 Frameworks of national culture
2.11 The national culture theory jungle
2.12 Frameworks for organisatinal culture
2.13 Frameworks of national vis a vis corporate culture
2.14 Multilevel models of cultural differences
2.15 Discussion
2.16 Final central question
3 Methodology and Sample
3.1 The Questionnaire
3.2 Procedure
3.3 Methodology and Sampling
3.4 The sampling process
3.5 Units per level of analysis
3.6 Demographic and higher level variables
3.7 Missing Data
3.8 Discussion
3.9 Conclusion
4 Data analysis on the VSM items
4.1 Confirmatory Factor Analysis
4.2 Replication of the VSM dimensions with equations
4.3 Comparison with Hofstede
4.4 Equivalence of Cultures between Units of Analysis
4.5 Correlations within levels of analysis
4.6 Conclusions
5 Multilevel Models of the VSM dimensions
5.1 Multilevel modelling
5.2 Bayesian estimation of random group effects
5.3 Variance Partitioning Coefficients for nested models
5.4 Deviance Information Criteria
5.5 Discussion and intermediate conclusion
6 Multilevel Models of OCM Items
6.1 Exploratory Factor Analysis of OCM responses
6.2 Reliability Analysis
6.3 Variance Partitioning Coefficients of the OCM dimensions
6.4 Deviance Information Criteria
6.5 Discussion
7 The Multilevel Culture Dimensions Set
7.1 Selection process
7.2 Correlation analysis
7.3 The MLC Culture Model
7.4 Analysis of variance
7.5 Multilevel multivariate analysis
7.6 Sampling issues
7.7 Construct validation with secondary data
7.8 Cultural Cluster as the highest level of analysis
7.9 Discussion
Models with Predictor Variables
8.1 Invariance to predictor variables
8.2 Multilevel models with predictor variables
8.3 Interpretation of the MLC dimension models
8.4 Outlier Analysis
8.5 Discussion
9 Countries by Multilevel Culture Dimensions
9.1 MLC vectors at the country level
9.2 Qualitative evaluation of country cultures
9.3 Cluster Analysis
9.4 Discussion
10 Corporations by Multilevel Culture Dimensions
10.1 MLC vectors and their classification
10.2 Evaluation of corporate cultures
10.3 Country Organisations’ cultures
10.4 Conclusions
11 Conclusions
11.1 Summary and answer to the central question
11.2 Suggestions for future research
11.3 Implications for management and consultants
Reflections
Appendix A: Questionnaire
Appendix B: Feedback for Company Nu
Appendix C: Questionnaire’s Modes of Distribution
Appendix D: Country by Corporation Mean Scores
Appendix E: GLOBE Study Dimensions
Appendix F: Step-up Procedures multilevel models
Appendix G: National data
References