The Differences in Values Between Managers of the European Founding Countries, the New Members and the Applicant Countries: Societal Orientation or Financial Orientation?

Emmanuelle Reynaud (1) , Carolyn Egri , David Ralston (2) , Wade Danis , Arunas Starkus , Marina Dabic , Florian Wangenheim , Tevfik Dalgic , Francisco Castro , Vojko Potocan , Masoud Kavoossi , Mario Molteni , Ilya Girson , Detelin Elenkov , José Pla-Barber , Isabelle Maignan , Mark Weber (3) , Alan Wallace

1 AMU IAE - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Aix-en-Provence
2 BGU - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
3 Argosy University

Advocates for a social Europe are worried that the accession of ex-Eastern Bloc countries into the European Community would lead European corporations to emphasize a financial orientation rather than a societal orientation. We examined this question in a study of the values orientations of 3,836 managers in 16 countries representing established EU, new EU, and candidate EU country groups. Within-Europe managerial values convergence was found in a relatively high openness to change and low self-enhancement values. However, we found divergent values such that managers in established EU countries were more self-transcendent and less conservative than their counterparts in new EU and candidate EU countries. Implications for the convergence of future values within the Europe region are discussed.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Business administration

Emmanuelle Reynaud, Carolyn Egri, David Ralston, Wade Danis, Arunas Starkus, et al.. The Differences in Values Between Managers of the European Founding Countries, the New Members and the Applicant Countries: Societal Orientation or Financial Orientation?. European Management Journal, 2007, 25 (2), pp.132 - 145. ⟨10.1016/j.emj.2007.02.005⟩. ⟨hal-01796514⟩