Empirical data is not available for all the dimensions mentioned above.
Using the available data, however, the following picture can be created:
Hofstede developed his model after polling 116,000 IBM-employees world-wide in the 1970s.
He showed that one can find national and regional culture groups in the world and that these culture groups have an essential influence on a company’s behaviour, its organisation and management.
In his study, he developed the five cultural dimensions model:
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