Research Note: Cultural Gaps in Cross-national Cooperation: the Legacy of Empires in Macedonia
基于作者在前南斯拉夫地区援助工作的经验，通过小规模复制霍夫斯泰德研究，分析英国与马其顿企业员工的文化差异及其对跨国发展援助的影响。
This article draws on the author's experience as a UK aid worker operating in a business support agency in former Yugoslavia and, through empirical work at employee level, seeks to understand the ways in which national cultural differences impinge on development work in economies undergoing transformation. Yugoslavia was the only Eastern block country included in Hofstede's major analysis of national cultural differences. A small-scale replication of his study, based on four comparable business support organizations, two in the United Kingdom and two in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, first examines the extent to which the fundamental differences which he identified still hold true and then looks at the ways in which the Macedonian findings can be interpreted as a legacy of empires. The implications of the cultural gap in the sphere of cross-national development assistance are then explored through a management log.