Gert Jan Hofstede
Associate Professor
(pronounced like this, but I'll also respond to, for instance, this or this).
(In het Nederlands)
To know more about my books, click the pictures. Clicking Cultures and Organizations will take you to a page on my father and the VSM. To know what I'm working on at the moment, click my photograph. Or go to my non-university personal site. For anything else in this site, press the site map on the left. For university news, go to the new pages of my department.
Throughout most of history, the state has acted more like the Mafia than an organization that was concerned with economic growth. Douglass C. North, "Institutions, transaction costs, and the rise of merchant empires", in James D. Tracy (ed) The political economy of merchant empires, state power and world trade 1350-1750. Cambridge University Press 1991.
- Wageningen University
- Mansholt Graduate School for the Social Sciences
- Information Technology Group
- Hollandseweg 1
- 6706 KN Wageningen, Netherlands
- Leeuwenborch (building 201), room 5046
- telephone: +31 (0)317-48 4630 (4154)
- e-mail: gertjan.hofstede@wur.nl
- fax: +31 (0)317-48 3158
Last modified 29 Nov 2007.