The Individualism‐Collectivism Construct: An Etic‐emic Analysis in an Organizational Context

Abstract

This study is an extension of an etic‐emic analysis of the individualism‐collectivism construct at the sociopsychological level to an organizational context. At the first level of comparison, strong and weak etics were extracted to permit comparability of values. At the second level, emic elements were produced to provide a basis of intercultural comparisons. Purely individualistic, purely collectivist and multidimensional factors emerged for the ten nations under consideration.

Citation

Abraham, R. (1996), "The Individualism‐Collectivism Construct: An Etic‐emic Analysis in an Organizational Context", Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb008411