National Cultures of the World: A Statistical Reference

by Philip M. Parker

This work is an examination of borderless markets where national boundaries are no longer the only relevant criteria in making international marketing, economic planning, and business decisions. Understanding political and nonpolitical borders is especially important for products and industries that are culture bound and those that require local adaptation. National culture is one critical factor that affects economic development, demographic behavior, and general business policies around the world. Over 75,000 statistics are provided for over 230 national groups covering a number of social, economic, and business variables. A significant review of literature is also included.

264 pages, Hardcover

First published February 28, 1997

About the author

Philip M. Parker holds the INSEAD Chair Professorship of Management Science at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France). He has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar books from a template which is filled with data from database and internet searches. At Amazon.com, Parker is listed as the author of 85,000 books that his program created and overall he claims to have produced 200,000 different titles. All books are self-published paperbacks and are printed only when an order arrives. Ninety-five percent of the ordered books are sent out electronically.

Parker has produced a series of cross-language dictionaries and thesauri, e.g. Webster's Quechua - English Thesaurus Dictionary. Parker's methods of publishing dictionaries are considered unethical by many professional linguists and contain large amounts of error. Of particular concern is the fact that he fails to either acknowledge or reference his sources and leaves the impression that he has done the linguistic work to amass the data

Parker's programs can also produce rudimentary poetry as well as scripts for animated game shows intended to teach English to non-native speakers and available on YouTube. He plans to extend the programs to produce romance novels.