Hofstede defined culture as “the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others” (Hofstede, 2012) and his cultural dimensions ...

Tavanti, M. (2012). The Cultural Dimensions of Italian Leadership Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance and Masculinity from an American Perspective. Leadership, 8, 287-301.

Merkin, R. S. (2006). Uncertainty Avoidance and Facework A Test of the Hofstede Model. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 30, 213-228.

Design/methodology/approach Based on the literature, collaborative culture and its four dimensions, namely, collectivism, long-term orientation, power symmetry and uncertainty avoidance, were modelled ...

Therefore, the following propositions were predicted: Proposition 5: The cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance moderates the relationship between affective images and conative images.

Uncertainty avoidance is the measure of a culture’s (or an individual’s) discomfort with uncertainty and ambiguity. Researchers Dan Grupe and Jack Nitschke at the University of Wisconsin ...