Peter Smith
Qualifications
- Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex, UK
- CACR Honorary Fellow
Contact
Category: Honorary Fellow
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About
Peter Smith is a distinguished researcher working in the areas of cultural differences in processes of social influence, including both formal leadership in organizations and more informal processes including conformity and culturally distinctive aspects such as Chinese guanxi. He has conducted surveys sampling more than 50 nations (including New Zealand), and has examined culturally effective ways of cross-national working.
Peter Smith is a cross-cultural psychologist who obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1962. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK.
He is first author or editor of ten books, including Leadership, Organisations and Culture (1988, with Mark Peterson), Understanding Social Psychology across Cultures (2006, with Michael Bond and Cigdem Kagitcibasi), Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research (2008, with Mark Peterson and David Thomas), Cross-cultural Psychology (2009, with Deborah Best) and more than 180 other publications in management and psychology journals. A new edition of his textbook Understanding Social Psychology across Cultures was published in August 2014.
For six years he was editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and he is a former president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, of the International Association for Applied Psychology and of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology.
He notes that while many aspects of organizational behaviour are relatively similar in differing cultural contexts it is the differences that have a disproportionately significant effect on outcomes, and which provide leverage points for enhanced performance.