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Introduction :

Geert Hofstede defines culture as the particular feature of the nations. Thus the nationality is likely to set up the basic values and believes of every one's mind. A generally accepted definition is that offered by Kroeber and Kluckholm :

"Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit of and for behaviour acquired and transmitted by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiment in artefacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional (i.e., historically derived and selected) ideas and especially their attached values; culture systems may, on the one hand, be considered as a products of action, on the other as conditioning elements of future action."

In this last perspective one can assess that culture, defined in accordance to Hofstede's view, has dramatic effects on the way firm are organized. Barnard and Selznick argue that the first interest in the impact of nationality on the firm's......

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