Edited by:
Paul T. P. Wong
Lilian C. J. Wong

2006

The frontispiece of Geert Hofstede’s influential book, Culture’s consequences: Comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across nations (Hofstede, 2001) includes the following quote: “Vérité en-deça des pyrénées, erreur au-delà”.Written about 350 years ago by the French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal and included in his Pensées, Hofstede’s translation is “There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees that are falsehoods on the other.”