Intercultural Co‐operation in Organisations

Abstract

Organisations, Symbols, Culture and Values Organisations invade and shape our lives in many ways. They helped us to be born, tried to educate us, sell us their products, try to amuse us, employ us or pay us unemployment benefits, shape our physical environment, try to tell us what to do or not to do, pretend to protect us, heal us when we are sick and bury us when we are dead. As persons we are very much at the mercy of many organisations — yet collectively we are those organisations; we made them, maintain them, but rarely we seem to be able to direct them where we want them to go — even if we are called “Directors”. We are apprentice sorcerers, not only with regard to the technical products of our society but even more with regard to its organisational products. We know very little about organisations and organising.

Citation

Hofstede, G. (1982), "Intercultural Co‐operation in Organisations", Management Decision, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 53-67. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb001305