Ph.D., The University of Michigan, Organizational Psychology, September 1979.
M.A., The University of Michigan, Organizational Psychology, August 1977.
B.A., magna cum laude, Duke University, Psychology, May 1975.

Professor of Management and International Business (tenured).   Department of Management and International Business, Florida Atlantic University, August 1997 to present.  (Visiting Professor, 1996-7.)

Hofstede Chair in Cultural Diversity (ongoing summer position).  Department of Management and Organization Studies, Maastricht University, June 2006 to present.

Professor (tenured), Management Area, Texas Tech University, August, 1990 to August 1997. Associate Professor, September 1985 to August 1990. Member, Graduate Faculty. Courtesy appointment, School of Medicine.

Associate Professor, Department of General Business, Management and Organization, University of Miami, May 1983 to August 1985. Assistant Professor, August 1980 to May 1983. Secondary appointment in Department of Psychology.  Member, Graduate Faculty.

Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Organizational Sciences, Wayne State University, September 1979 to June 1980.

Dr. Mark F. Peterson is a Professor of Management and International Business at Florida Atlantic University and holds a part-time Professor position supported by the Hofstede Chair in Cultural Diversity at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His principal interests are in questions of how culture and international relations affect the way organizations should be managed. He has published over 90 articles and chapters, a similar number of conference papers, and several books. The articles have appeared in major management and international management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, and Organization Science. He has also contributed international management themes to the basic social science literature through chapters in the Annual Review of Psychology, the Communication Yearbook, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and a Department Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. 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.

Journal Articles and Refereed Publications since 2002:

“Nation, Demographic and Attitudinal Boundary Conditions on Leader Social Rewards and Punishments in Local Governments (with T.K. Peng).” Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2008, 29 (1), 95-117. 

“A Note on the Aarhus Master Class in Developing a Scholarly Background in International Organization Studies of Management” (with Mikael Soendergaard).  International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2007, 7 (3), 397-401.

“The Cultural Heritage of Cross Cultural Management Research: Implications for the Hofstede Chair in Cultural Diversity.”  International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2007, 7 (3), 359-378.

“Cultural Tendencies in Negotiation: A Comparison of Finland, Mexico, Turkey and the United States” (with Lynn E. Metcalf, Allan Bird, Mahesh Shankarmahesh, and Terri Lituchy).  International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2007, 7(2), 147-168.

“Organizational Behavior in Multinational Organizations” (with David C. Thomas).  Journal of Organizational Behavior, 48(3), 2007, 261-279.

“Measurement Metrics at Aggregate Levels of Analysis: Implications for Organization Culture Research and the GLOBE Project” (with Stephanie L. Castro).  Leadership Quarterly, 2006, 17 (5), 506-521.

“Demographic effects on the use of vertical sources of guidance by managers in widely differing cultural contexts” (with Peter B. Smith and with 38 coauthors).  International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2005, 5(1), 5-26.

“IT Product Adoption and the Influence of National Culture,” (with Kallol Bagchi and Paul Hart).  Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 2004, 7 (4), 29-46.

“Cultural socialization as a source of intrinsic work motivation” (with S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla).  Group and Organization Management, 2003, 28(2), 188-216.  Best Article Award for the journal in 2003.

“Cultural values, sources of guidance and their relevance to managerial behavior: A 47 nation study” (with Peter B. Smith and Shalom Schwartz).  Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 2002, 33(1), 188-208.

“Emics and etics for organizational studies: A lesson in contrast from linguistics” (with Kenneth L. Pike).  International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 2002, 2(1), 5-19.


Books and Chapters since 2002


Foundations of Cross Cultural Management (with Mikael Soendergaard, eds.).  London: Sage Press, forthcoming (publication expected June 2008).

“Introduction: The foundations of cross cultural management” (with Mikael Soendergaard).  In Mark F. Peterson and Mikael Soendergaard (eds.), Foundations of Cross Cultural Management (with Mikael Soendergaard, eds.).  London: Sage Press, forthcoming (publication expected June 2008).

“Cross-cultural comparative studies and problems of coordinating international research teams.” In David A. Buchanan and Alan Bryman (eds), Handbook of Organizational Research Methods. London: Sage Press, forthcoming (publication expected fall 2008).

Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research (with Peter B. Smith and David C. Thomas, eds.), Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, in press (publication expected spring 2008).

“Introduction” (with Peter B. Smith and David C. Thomas).  In Peter B. Smith, Mark F. Peterson & David C. Thomas (eds.), Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, in press (publication expected spring 2008).

“Social Structures and Processes in Cross Cultural Management” (with Peter B. Smith).  In Peter B. Smith, Mark F. Peterson & David C. Thomas (eds.), Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, in press (publication expected spring 2008).

“Cognitive Structures and Processes in Cross Cultural Management” (with Robert Wood).   In Peter B. Smith, Mark F. Peterson & David C. Thomas (eds.), Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, in press (publication expected spring 2008).

“Emic.”  In Stewart Clegg (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, 2007, pp. 427-8.

“Etic.”  In Stewart Clegg (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press, 2007, pp. 478-9. 

“Organizational culture and climate” (with Ronald Fischer).  In Charles Spielberger, ed., Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology.  San Diego: CA: Elsevier, 2004, pp 715-721.

“People in global organizations: culture, personality and social dynamics” (with Mary Yoko Brannen, Carolina Gomez, Laurence Romani, Lilach Sagiv and Pei Chuan Wu).  In Henry W. Lane, Martha L. Maznevski, Mark Mendenhall, and Jeanne McNett (eds.), Handbook of Global Management : A Guide to Managing Complexity.  Boston: Blackwell, 2004, pp. 26-54.

“Emics and etics in cross cultural organizational studies: Universal and local, tacit and explicit” (with S. Antonio Ruiz-Quintanilla). In Dean Tjosvold & Kwok Leung, eds., Cross-cultural management: Foundations and future.  Ashgate, 2003, pp. 73-101.  

“The sociocultural contexts of decision making in organizations” (with Shaila M. Miranda, Peter B. Smith & Valerie M. Haskell).  In Sandra L. Schneider & James Shanteau (eds), Emerging perspectives on decision research.  Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 512-555.

“Cross-cultural leadership” (with Peter B. Smith).  In M.J. Gannon & K.L. Newman (Eds.) Handbook of cross-cultural management.  Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 217-235.


Other publications

Book review of “Culture, leadership, and organizations: The GLOBE study of 62 societies” by Robert J. House et al.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004.  Administrative Science Quarterly, 2004, 49 (4), 641-647.

Book review of “Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations, 2d ed.” by Geert Hofstede.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001.  Administrative Science Quarterly, 2003, 48(1), 127-131.