Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across...

2d ed Geert Hofstede. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001. 596 pp. $97.95.

The second edition of Hofstede's book about culture dimensions, Culture's Consequences, covers a tremendous amount of new literature and adds a modest amount of new data to the first edition of 1980. It updates literature about the now ubiquitous dimensions of individualism/collectivism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity/femininity that he adapted from Inkeles and Levinson's (1969) review of the national character literature in the first edition. The book includes data on these di