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