Marieke de Mooij, Ph.D. (Netherlands), is a consultant in cross-cultural communications, as well as a retired profesora associada of international advertising at the University of Navarra in Spain and visiting professor at several universities across the world. She is the author of several academic publications on the influence of culture on marketing and advertising. She has also authored books on culture and consumer behavior as well as culture and communication theory worldwide.
A pioneer, now turned into a classic. This is no less true for Geert Hofstede as it is for Marieke de Mooij, who had the genius of starting data based work on consumer behaviour across cultures before the turn of the century. The patterns shown in this book, updated year after year, are eye openers to the persistent power of culture. Appreciating them can save marketing professionals so much time and money. Read it, and take it seriously. -- Gert Jan Hofstede, Wageningen University & Research