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Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner were teachers at Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton Business School, where they developed a series of continua based on their observation of management practices around the world. By placing countries at different points along a continuum, they avoided the rigidity of a scale of 100. This allowed for greater flexibility of interpretation, which can be seen to fit better the notion of intercultural awareness as a perceptual art rather than as a strict discipline.
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Hurn, B.J., Tomalin, B. (2013). Key Thinkers in Cross-Cultural Communication (2). In: Cross-Cultural Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391147_3
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