Geert Hofstede received a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering
from the Technical University at Delft and a doctorate in Social
Psychology from the University of Groningen, both in his native
Netherlands. His professional career includes experience as a
worker, foreman, plant manager, chief psychologist on the
international staff of a multinational corporation, academic
researcher, director of human resources of another multinational,
and university professor. He has been affiliated with IMD
(Lausanne, Switzerland), INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), the
European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (Brussels,
Belguim), IIASA (Laxenburg Castle, Austria), and the University of
Hong Kong. He is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Anthropology
and International Management of Maastricht University, the
Netherlands. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Institute for
Research on Intercultural Cooperation (of which he was a founder)
and of the Center for Economic Research, both at Tilburg
University, the Netherlands. He has lectured at universities and
consulted for institutions and companies around the world. Dr.
Hofstede’s books have appeared in seventeen languages, and his
articles have been published in social science journals around the
world. He is among the top 100 most cited authors in the Social
Science Citation Index.
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