CONTEMPORARY INTERCULTURAL STUDIES OF ORGANIZATION: THE GLOBE PROJECT

The main goal  of the paper  has been an analysis  of the key theoretical and empirical findings of the influential contemporary intercultural study of organizations – “Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior
Effectiveness” (GLOBE). The above-mentioned has been accomplished by the method of content analysis of the most important papers that resulted from the empirical studies. The main goal of this research program was the analysis of the societal culture’s impact on leadership and organizational culture. Societal cultures have been differentiated along nine cultural dimensions. Based on the scores on these dimensions, cultures have  been classified into ten cultural clusters. Six global leadership factors have been revealed, some of them found to be universally successful, some universally unsuccessful, and the rest of them culture-bound (successful in some, unsuccessful in other cultures). The key conclusion of the paper has been that, in spite of some limitations of this research endeavor, GLOBE has considerable theoretical, empirical and practical relevance.

Key words: organizations, intercultural studies, GLOBE, cultural clusters,
leadership

JEL Classification: M12, M14