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The fast-growing global village may not be without cultural boundaries. Globalization as the evolvement of a syndrome of universally endorsed cultural values and practices may have its limits because climate-based demands and wealth-based resources in concert shape unique local cultures. This article reviews results of theory-based research that tested this innovative hypothesis for globalization of the managerially relevant decisions and actions of recruitment, handling work motives, conforming to leadership ideals, and shaping organizational structures and strategies. Recently published secondary analyses of large cross-national/cross-sectional data sets indeed support the presumption that there are climato-economic limits to globalization of managerial situations. Globaphobes and globaphiles may thus have too unrealistic nightmares and daydreams about the sameness of cultures around the globe in times to come.

Les limites écologiques à la mondialisation des situations managerielles (Evert Van de Vliert, Ståle Einarsen, Martin C. Euwema et Onne Janssen)

Le village mondial est en pleine croissance et peut ne pas être sans frontières culturelles. La mondialisation, en tant qu'évolution d'un syndrome de valeurs et de pratiques culturelles universelles, peut avoir atteint ses limites car la demande fondée sur le climat et les ressources fondées sur la richesse permettent ensemble de forger les cultures locales. Cet article analyse la recherche qui, en se fondant sur la théorie, a testé cette hypothèse innovante pour la mondialisation des décisions et actions managerielles relatives au recrutement, aux motivations de travail, aux idéaux de leadership et aux structures et stratégies organisationnelles. Des analyses secondaires de données transnationales et transsectorielles, récemment publiées, appuient l'hypothèse de l'existence de limites climato-économiques à la mondialisation des situations managerielles. Les globaphobes et les globaphiles partagent donc les mêmes cauchemars et les mêmes rêveries sur l'uniformité des cultures dans le monde dans un avenir pas si lointain.

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management work motives organizational forms globalization climato-economic niches

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Ecological Limits to Globalization of Managerial Situations

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