IT Governance · Chapter 2 supplement
Countries differ in how they communicate, how they decide, how they feel about time. Chapter 2 of the book reads those differences through Meyer's six dimensionsMeyer's six dimensionsA framework from Erin Meyer's book The Culture Map for reading how business norms differ by country — communicating, leading, deciding, trusting, disagreeing and scheduling. Meyer's original has eight scales; this figure uses the six that map cleanly.. Print space limited the book to a simplified view of the main countries. This is the full version — all nineteen, read by touching the lines.
Two layers: the axes are Meyer's, the numbers are Hofstede's. The six ways of reading culture follow Meyer's framework; each country's position is the author's linear estimateLinear estimateEach Meyer-axis value is produced by feeding Hofstede's published scores into a fixed formula (a weighted sum). It is a model — a rough guide, not a measured value. from Hofstede's published six-dimension valuesHofstede's six dimensionsCultural indices that quantify countries, from social psychologist Geert Hofstede: power distance, individualism, motivation toward achievement, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation and indulgence. Their published per-country scores are the basis for the numbers here.. Meyer does not publish per-country numbers, which is why the figures come from Hofstede. It is a map for seeing tendencies, not for ranking countries against one another. Sources are at the foot of the page.
The six axes
Higher means one quality, lower means the opposite. The 0–100 scale is degree, not "better" or "worse".
The six in the book
The faint grey is all nineteen lines. Over it, each country's own line is drawn in. Which axes run high and which run low — the country's shape reads as an outline.
By the numbers
When the chart is hard to read, use the table. The six countries in the book are coloured.
Sources & method
The framework is the six dimensions of Meyer, E. (2014) The Culture Map, PublicAffairs. The scores are the author's linear estimates from Hofstede's published six-dimension values (geerthofstede.com, "6 dimensions for website", version 2015-08-16) — not measurements (Meyer does not publish per-country numbers). Israel's IVRIVR (Indulgence vs Restraint)One of Hofstede's six dimensions: how freely a society allows gratification of desires versus restraining it by social norms. Israel's official value is missing, so a neutral 50 is used. is imputed at 50 for missing official data; Portugal's UAIUAI (Uncertainty Avoidance)One of Hofstede's six dimensions: how much a society tries to avoid ambiguity and the unknown. of 104 is clampedClampForcing a value that falls outside a range (here 0–100) to the nearest edge. Portugal's UAI of 104 is replaced with the ceiling, 100. to 100. This is the web version of a figure from Chapter 2 of IT Governance: A Practical Guide (Shintaro Tsuruta, Gijutsu-Hyohron, 2026).
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