.Internal – External The internal versus external control dimension concerns the meaning people assign to their environment. People who have an internally controlled mechanistic (or mechanistic) view of nature - a belief that one can dominate nature - usually view themselves as the point of departure for determining the right action. In contrast to this, cultures with an externally controlled (or organic) view of nature - which assumes that man is controlled by nature - orient their actions towards others. They focus on the environment rather than on themselves. These concepts are highly abstract terms, deliberately so because we seek to include a large number of “family resemblances” beneath each bifurcation. Let us now consider these “families” in business terms.