SOME EVIDENCE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL MANAGERIAL CULTURE

Journal of Management Studies - Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 153-162 - 1982
Jim Everett1, Bruce W. Stening1, Peter A. Longton1
1Department of Management, The University of Western Australia

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ABSTRACTAn 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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Journal of Management Studies

Tập 19 Số 2

153-162

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