The IMPACT project has investigated crowd behaviour in emergencies. It has a special focus on cross-cultural differences in crowd behaviour.  The project investigated a varied literature. Among many other outputs, it focuses on agent-based modelling of crowd behaviour, thus creating a virtual laboratory.  The IMPACT final event takes place in Rome on 21 September 2017. 

Recently Gert Jan’s group at Wageningen started a collaboration with North-West University (NWU) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He collaborates with them in creating agent-based models of socio-technical systems, for instance, about safety culture in industry. During a visit to NWU, Gert Jan was interviewed by Hermien Zaaiman.  Culture’s Causes You can hear him talk about his … Read more

On June 6th 2017, Gert Jan will speak at the 11th Annual LILA Summit at Harvard. LILA (http://www.pz.harvard.edu/projects/learning-innovations-laboratory) is a research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that convenes non-competing chief learning officers and chief innovation officers from 25 global organizations to push one another’s thinking and practices as they consider the future … Read more

Food Safety is an issue of great importance to industry and consumers worldwide. The annual Global food Safety Conference travels the world, catering for industry and other stakeholders. Last week the 2017 edition took place in Houston, with 1200 delegates attending.Gert Jan held an invited keynote on Food Safety Culture. He argued that the same … Read more

The VSM 2013 is being translated by researchers into the languages they need. Usually they do this painstakingly with back-translations. If researchers send us their version, we put it on the site for others to use.Today, the following languages are available: Arabic, Bosnian, Brazil, Chinese, German, Greek, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Persian, Polish, Russian, … Read more

Cultures & Organizations 3rd ed to be translated into German Finally, Beck publishers is about to translate Cultures and Organizations 3rd edition into German. Lokales Denken, globales Handlen, is the name in German. This is the edition with three authors: Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede and Michael Minkov. It is also the one with six … Read more

Gert Jan Hofstede will speak at the Christmas event of Sietar Austria. With perhaps a slight Freudian touch, his topic will be ‘The dark side of culture’. The lecture will take place Friday 25 November in Vienna. You can read more at the Sietar Austria site  here.

Gert Jan Hofstede spoke at a cross-cultural management conference ‘the culture factor‘ in Japan. It was organised by itim Japan in collaboration with CicomBrains. Gert Jan delivered a keynote on the them ‘Culture, a wall or a curtain?’ (pdf). It played on the symbolic difference between these two words. Japanese are known to have used the word … Read more

On 21 October 2016, Geert Hofstede is to receive a Honorary Doctorate from Galati University in Romania. You can read more about is at this site. If your Romanian is substandard, you can first change the language to English.

On October 26, Gert Jan Hofstede will deliver a keynote speech at the 2016 Harmonization conference of FSSC 22002 in Amsterdam. See the conference site for more information or for registering. The speech will be about culture, food safety, and compliance.