Impact of globalization of public administration practices on Hofstede's cultural indices: A comparison study of the United States of America, Belgium, and Kenya

Governments face new challenges in the 21st Century. Deliverance of services and interfacing with foreign governments and countries are a daily occurrence. The public sector is no longer constrained by borders in the facilitative state and along with the new freedom comes the globalization of pubic administrative practices. They have been exported around the world.;This dissertation attempts to identify those changes and measure the differences between the national cultures of the United States of America, Belgium, and Kenya to understand whether or not the national cultures as identified by Geert Hofstede in 1980 have shifted and whether globalization of administrative practices fit the national culture.