“…The other five independent variables all pertained to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, and were defined as the following: a) individualism-collectivism-the extent to which society members identify themselves as individuals versus group members; (b) power distance-the degree to which society members anticipate and accept the distribution of power; (c) masculinity-femininity-differences in attitudes toward societal roles between the two sexes; (d) uncertainty avoidance-the self-programming of societies towards dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty; and, (e) long-short orientation-relative differences in significance of perseverance, thrift, and respect for tradition, which was also otherwise referred to as Confucian dynamism (de Mooij and Hofstede, , 2011Hofstede, 1981Hofstede, , 1984Hofstede, , 1994Hofstede, , 1998aHofstede, , 1998bHofstede, , 2001Hofstede, , 2009Hofstede and Bond, 1988; Hofstede and Hofstede, n.d.; Hofstede and Minkov, 2010). The underlying construct of culture can be defined as "the collective programming of the human mind that distinguishes the members of one human group from those of another.…”