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Having stated a working definition of culture as the representation of a society’s shared habits, traditions, and collective learned beliefs, we introduce four direct/composite measures of culture, discuss their constructions, and present their respective component dimensions. Although definitions of culture vary, and while it likely is the case that no definition is perfect, having even a broad, yet succinct, definition in place allows us to focus our attention on the measurement of culture and, accordingly, on the extent to which culture varies across societies. We also consider how (dis)similar each composite measure is to our preferred metric, the Inglehart measure of cultural distance.
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The tables presented in this appendix detail the values for the specific dimensions of the Hofstede and GLOBE measures of cultural distance.
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White, R. (2017). A Primer on the Measurement of Cross-Societal Cultural Differences. In: Public Opinion on Economic Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58103-3_4
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