Sales Handle Translated into 15 languages with over 100,000 copies sold worldwide, this is the latest edition of the classic work on Groupthink from the world's most highly regarded business anthropologist.About the Book Since its original hardcover publication in 1991, this trailblazing work has stirred a deep and wide response, selling over 100,000 copies around the world, with translations in 15 languages. Professor Geert Hofstede's 30 years of field research on cultural differences and the "software of the mind" helps us look at how we think and how we fail to think as members of groups. This newly revised and expanded edition is based on the latest data from Professor Hofstede's ongoing field research, and provides detailed comparisons of cross-cultural differences among 76 nations, an expanded introduction, added material on how cultural factors have influenced the current economic crisis, as well as an updated index and references.Melding powerful intellectual analysis and hard social, cultural, and organizational research, Hofstede paints a sobering picture of a world perilously lacking in self-knowledge unaware of serious difference between the businesses, organizations, cultures, and nations that populate our planet despite the fact of globalization. But culture shock whether between an individual and a new country, between organizations, between the sexes, or between opposing diplomats can be turned to our advantage, Hofstede says if we understand it. Cultures and Organizations helps to explain the differences in the way leaders and their followers think, offering practical solutions for those in business and politics to help solve conflict between different groups.Features The Wall Street Journal ranked Hofstede 16th on their list of the Top 20 Most Influential Business Thinkers of 2008 The theory that changed the face of international management returns with updated research data and new material A profound