A Cultural Approach to African Management Philosophy

Culture Stabilization Patterns

The model of Figure 1, taken from Iguisi and Hofstede (1993), indicates how we assume culture patterns in a country to stabilize themselves through feedback loops, but also to change under the influence of outside forces.

Figure 1.

The stabilization of culture patterns (Iguisi and Hofstede, 1993, p. 3)

The system of this model in Figure 1 implies that one cannot understand one element-such as, management practice philosophy within the local environment-without its societal and cultural value context.