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The study’s conceptualization of culture is based on the use of Grid-Group Cultural Theory (GGCT) as a holistic functional theory and Global Leadership and Organization Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) that offers cultural dimensions that have been mean measured and ranked among 62 societies. In Sects. 1.1.2 and 1.1.3, the theoretical bases of GGCT and GLOBE within social theory was discussed, where it was argued that both can be placed between the structuralists’ theories and the discipline of psychology paradigms (see Fig. 1.1)
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Not addressed in this study as the data do not provide variables that can measure Gender Egalitarianism.
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Three out of nine GLOBE’s cultural dimensions were developed to correspond to Hofstede’s dimensions: Power Distance, Individualism-Collectivism and Uncertainty Avoidance.
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Triandis’s theory has received support at the individual level but has not been tested at culture level.
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See Table 16.9 p. 475 in House et al. (2004).
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Bernhardsdóttir, Á.E. (2015). Culture: Conceptualizing the Independent Variable. In: Crisis-Related Decision-Making and the Influence of Culture on the Behavior of Decision Makers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20714-8_2
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