Geert Hofstede | Defined Corporate Culture

I've been interested in Hofstede's work since B-school, back in the early second millennia, and at one time considered publishing using his country characteristics as predictors for economic and social welfare outcomes. Nowadays, I use the results of his analyses frequently in small R programming demonstrations.

He's an interesting researcher, who's done important work, as The Economist article describes:
The man who put corporate culture on the map—almost literally—Geert Hofstede (born 1928) defined culture along five different dimensions. Each of these he measured for a large number of countries, and then made cross-country comparisons. In the age of globalisation, these have been used extensively by managers trying to understand the differences between workforces in different environments.
The Economist article give a fuller picture of Geert Hofstede, and anyone interested in reading one of his works might enjoy Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition. An interesting dive into Geert's research and its implication, with a fairly high reader score.

As for sampling of analyses I've posted using Hofstede's cultural dimensions:

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