Research Note: Cultural Gaps in Crossnational Cooperation: The Legacy of Empires in Macedonia
基于英国援助人员在马其顿的工作经验，通过小规模实证研究检验霍夫斯泰德的文化差异理论，并探讨帝国遗产对当前跨国发展合作中文化差距的影响。
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.