Philippe d iribarne biography examples

French author

Philippe d’Iribarne (born 7 March 1937, Casablanca, French Morocco) is a French author^[1] and director of research at CNRS.^[2] He works within a research centre called LISE (Laboratoire interdisciplinaire en sociologie économique or "interdisciplinary laboratorium on economic sociology").

Work

Philippe d'Iribarne graduated from École polytechnique of France and from Institut d'études politiques de Paris.

He is one of the most notable critics of the limitations of the works of Geert Hofstede, expressing concern that "a theory of culture that considers culture to be ‘shared meaning’ does not allow for representation of the forms of unity and continuity."^[3] Part of d'Iribarne's objections have been with the weaknesses of Hofstede's terminology in general and category names specifically (e.g., power distance as a culture as whole versus a culture's acceptance of hierarchy only within organizational settings).