Abstract
Philippe d'Iribarne (born 1937) is ethnologist and sociologist, graduated from the Grande Ecole of Science and Technology and from the Grande Ecole for political science. He is carrying out studies in the national centre for scientific research about the impact of culture on business and on the economy. In this text, Philippe d'Iribarne wants to prove the potential of an ethnographic approach to the international comparison of organizations. For that, he compares two studies' results based on the main approaches in this field, the questionnaire-based and the ethnographic ones. The first study was lead by Geert Hofstede (1980, 1991).
