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At first glance, the following study comparing Austrian data to North American data does not seem to have anything to do with Europe today or its future and therefore seems inappropriate as a contribution to this volume. Nevertheless we believe the phenomenon which is tested applies to Europe as well. The first question behind our study is based on the suspicion that an inner circle within cultural systems exists between practitioners and academics in their „ivory towers“. This leads to a kind of „group think“(1) in which one partner assures the other that he is on the „right“ track; however, in reality mutual „errors“ or „dysfunctions“ are reinforced. Both partners serve each other; practitioners want to be „theory based“ and theorists want to be „practical“. It is rather difficult to detect which side invented the specific pattern. A second question remains: how can this area of groupthink be brought out into the open and be overcome ?
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Reber, G. (1994). Intracultural Groupthink Demonstrated in the Area of Leadership Behaviour. In: Urban, S. (eds) Europe’s Economic Future. Gabler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-83803-2_10
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