The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

The consortium assembled for the challenge consisted of around 100 firms from a wide range of different sectors, and they were able to repurpose everything from design to production technologies from industries such as aerospace and motorsports. It brings to mind the groundbreaking work of Dutch sociologist Geert Hofstede.

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Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies.

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Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Geert Hofstede, in Cultures and Organizations , discusses five dimensions of national culture. Hofstede also points out that cultures vary in their acceptances of differences in power. One of them is whether a culture is more individualistic or collectivistic. Great Britain, and the Scandinavian countries.

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Hofstede Objective Retail Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

Lei Jun, CEO of the $10 billion Chinese company Xiaomi, has made headlines for creating products that look and act a lot like Apple’s, such as its new thin smartphone. He stands in front of a big screen with a well-designed presentation that shows off the product. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. He gets the audience pumped.”

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Hofstede Charisma Seminar Diversity 8