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There is empirical evidence for the relationship between a country’s
position within the PDI-UAI matrix and models of organizations implicit
in the minds of people from those countries that affect the way problems
are tackled. In the 1970s Owen James Stevens, an American professor at
INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France, used as an examina-
tion assignment for his organizational behavior course a case study very

FIGURE 9.1 Power Distance Versus Uncertainty Avoidance

5
market Singapore family
Jamaica
15

weak 25 Denmark
Hong Kong
Sweden
China
Vietnam
35
Ireland Great Britain Malaysia
India
Philippines
45 United States
Indonesia
New Zealand
Canada total
S Africa
Norway Australia Trinidad Africa W Slovakia
Africa E
Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI) 65 Switzerland Ge Finland Estonia Canada Quebec Bangladesh
Netherlands
55
Iran
Latvia
Thailand
Germany
Ecuador
Morocco
Lithuania
Arab ctrs
Taiwan
75 Austria Luxembourg Pakistan Czech Rep. Switzerland Fr
Italy
Brazil Venezuela
Colombia
Croatia
Israel Hungary Mexico
85 S Korea Turkey Bulgaria
Costa Rica France Panama
Chile Peru Slovenia Romania
Argentina Spain
Suriname
Japan Belgium Fr Poland Serbia
strong 95 Malta Belgium Nl Russia
El Salvador
Uruguay
Guatemala
Portugal
105
machine Greece pyramid
115
10 30 50 70 90 110
small Power Distance (PDI) large