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Some Evidence For An International Managerial Culture

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  • James E. Everett
  • Bruce W. Stening
  • Peter A. Longton

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An analysis is reported of the relations between the semantic responses obtained from managers of four nationalities. A total of 365 expatriate and local managers in the Singaporean subsidiaries of 34 American, British and Japanese M.N.C.s assessed their own and each of the other groups along each of 18 adjectival antonym pairs. For each nationality the correlations between the semantic items are used as similarity data for multidimensional scaling of the adjectives. It is shown that the 18 adjectival pairs can be reduced to a two‐dimensional circular map for each nationality, and that the placing of the adjectives on the circle agrees with a root mean square misfit of about 10° for the four nationalities. The results support the hypothesis that, for the groups considered, a shared international culture exists in the managerial context. The two dimensions on which the 36 semantic items can be mapped are interpretable as functional/dysfunctional and open/closed.

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  • James E. Everett & Bruce W. Stening & Peter A. Longton, 1982. "Some Evidence For An International Managerial Culture," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 19(2), pages 153-162, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:19:y:1982:i:2:p:153-162
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1982.tb00065.x
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    1. Adela McMurray & Don Scott, 2013. "Work Values Ethic, GNP Per Capita and Country of Birth Relationships," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 116(3), pages 655-666, September.

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