Prof. Dr. Mark F. Peterson

Room: B2.06
Tel.: +01 561 297-3669
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Email: mpeterso@fau.edu

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Dr. Mark F. Peterson is the Internet Coast Adams Professor of Management and International Business at Florida Atlantic University. His principal interests are in questions of how culture and international relations affect the way organizations should be managed. He has published over 80 articles and chapters, a similar number of conference papers, and several books.

Specific topics in his writings include the role different parties play in decision making in organizations throughout the world, the effects that culture has on the role stresses that managers experience, the way immigrant entrepreneur communities operate, and the way that intercultural relationships in multicultural teams and across hierarchical levels should function. Since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1979, Prof. Peterson has held faculty positions at Wayne State University, the University of Miami, Texas Tech University and Florida Atlantic University.

Position: Geert Hofstede Chair on Cultural Diversity

Specialization: Human relations, Intercultural relations, Power in organizations

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Selected publications:

• Demographic effects on the use of vertical sources of guidance by managers in widely differing cultural contexts, with Peter B. Smith and 38 coauthors. International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, in press.
• Cultural values, sources of guidance, and their relevance to managerial behavior: A 47-nation study, with PB Smith, SH Schwartz, et al., 33, 188-208, 2002.
• Cuban-American entrepreneurs: Chance, complexity and chaos (with Mark R. Meckler). Organization Studies, 22(1), 31-58, 2001.
• Handbook of Organizational Culture & Climate, edited with Neal M Ashkanasy, Celeste P M Wilderom, Sage Publications Inc., 2000.
• Embedded organizational events: Units of process in organization science. Organization Science, 9, 16-33, 1998.
• Does national culture or ambient temperature explain cross-national differences in role stress? No Sweat! A response to Van de Vliert and Van Yperen, (with Peter B. Smith). Academy of Management Journal, 40(4), 930-946, 1997.
• The Performance-Maintenance (PM) Theory of Leadership: Review of a Japanese Research Program, with J. Misumi, Administrative Science Quarterly, 30, 198-223, 1985.