In much of the OB literature these
types of cultural interactions are tested by assigning a country-level score to individuals (an
additive model) at the individual level of analysis (Tsui, Nifadkar & Ou, 2007), however, to the
extent that individuals within a country can differ on cultural orientations, such an attribution may
be inappropriate. In addition, according to a dispersion model, particularly this variance in
cultural orientations within an organization in a certain country might have consequences as
well.