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Textile And Clothing Industries: A Case Study

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The textile and clothing sector in Bulgaria nowadays is dominated by foreign companies from Italy and Germany. SMEs from Turkey are operating in many regions of the country. The establishment of a multicultural working environment requires knowledge on the impact of the national cultures on the organization and management of the textile and clothing companies. This paper applies the Hofstede’s 6D cultural dimensions to compare Bulgaria with three countries: Italy, Germany and Turkey, in the light of the influence of the particular national culture on the communication between employer and employees and peculiarities of the working organization in textiles and clothing companies. The discussion and conclusions may be extrapolated to other countries, …show more content…

The taxonomy of value dimensions, developed by Schein (1985), the framework of competing values of Cameron and Quinn (1999) and the GLOBE project (House et al., 2002) are among the most studied and cited theories. Hofstede’s model is undoubtedly one of the most used since its development in 1970s (Hofstede, 1991). It was created on the basis of a comprehensive research among IBM employees, aiming to evaluate both qualitatively and quantitatively the influence of the national culture on the values of people on their working places. This Hofstede’s study has been extended several times during the years and the last update of Hofstede’s model involves 76 countries and already six cultural dimensions (Hofstede et al., 2010), due to the studies of Geert Hofstede himself, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov and their …show more content…

It aims to show that the intercultural competence can be used for an antecedent of the successful management (Miska et al. 2013). Moreover, that the attitude of the managers is much more influenced by the national culture, than the specifics of the particular production industry (Pizam et al., 1997). The study is based on real cases, though the names of the companies and their location in Bulgaria are not mentioned so as not to come within the provisions of the Bulgarian or international legislation. Four of the dimensions, namely Power Distance, Collectivism/Individualism, Masculinity/Femininity and Uncertainty Avoidance are discussed in details, as the differences in the national cultures can be found especially there. The last two dimensions, Long Term Orientation and Indulgence show that the four studied countries have similar scores and attitudes. The discussion and conclusions can be extrapolated to other countries as well and the study can be used as an example for further analysis on organizational management in any kind of industry that is based on multicultural workplaces and

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