Cultural Dimensions of Pakistan: A Comparison of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provinces

Mehmood Anjum, Syed Muhammad. Zia and Hasan Raza

International Journal of Management Sciences, 2014, vol. 4, issue 6, 261-276

Abstract: Dowling et al, (2008), elaborates that cultural understanding can direct to better success of international business endeavors and absence of it can only as well direct to their failure. The Provinces of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa do not have resemblance roots and cultural background and each province has distinctive language, ethnicity and culture, and its cause the cultural diversity in Pakistan. The goal of the study is to look into the cultural dimensions of these four provinces of Pakistan. The Greet Hofstede‟s values survey module (2013) has been used as an instrument in this research. The data of 632 participants were utilized in this research for final investigation. The results verify the significant difference among cultural dimensions of four provinces of Pakistan. This research is an attempt to create cultural awareness and understanding of cultural diversity for global business managers to work and global organizations to start business in Pakistan.

Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://rassweb.org/admin/pages/ResearchPapers/Paper%203_1497371381.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rss:jnljms:v4i6p3

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Management Sciences from Research Academy of Social Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Danish Khalil ().