What is Hofstedean Models

The purpose of the field of cross-cultural management, amongst others, is to aid managers in dealing with new issues stemming from international encounters and employees from culturally diverse backgrounds. With today's businesses operating on the global market, exacerbated cross-cultural management challenges are more than ever in need of successful managers. Yet, it appears that the originally introduced approaches to successfully manage across cultures have undergone only little development. For this purpose, this chapter highlights the backlog demand of the field by discussing key issues with Hofstedean approaches and subsequentially identifying potential methodological approaches to advance the theoretical field and aiding practitioners. In this line, it will be argued that emic approaches, taking an ontological position of constructivism and epistemological stances of interpretivism through hermeneutics, could facilitate closing the gap between practice and academe. Recommendations for future research and relevant stakeholders are provided.