This outlook is now being replaced with the knowledge that managerial attitudes, values, behaviours and efficacy differ across national cultures (Newman & Nollen, 1996) and as a result, differences in national cultures have call for different management practices. Being in the preference zone of your own type of culture can be seen as advantageous to multinational location choice, as the absence of trust, and cultural distance, tend to create resistance, frictions, and misunderstandings (Holden, 2001)...
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Thus, cultural sensitivity becomes an important supporting mechanism (see Marschan,Welch &Welch, 1996) for the management of organisations. To a certain extent organisation performance may also be affected by cultural congruence. For instance, using Hofstede's (1980) national culture dimensions and analogous management practices, Newman & Nollen, (1996) found that work unit financial performance is higher when management practices in the work unit are congruent with the national culture...
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