VALUE ORIENTATIONS IN MILITARY ACADEMIES - A 13-COUNTRY STUDY

Internationalization is becoming a pervasive feature of military life. Therefore, empirical information on national cultural differences in the military sector is becoming increasingly relevant. One way to coll ect empirical data on this subject is to study value orientations of s tudent officers in military academies. A comparative study based on th is idea is reported in this article. The results indicate that nationa l differences between the student populations of military academies ar e as large as in the civilian sector. At the same time it emerges that one international military culture exists. Compared to the civilian s ector, this international military culture in general is institutional and bureaucratic. However, in some nations the military culture, as m easured in academies, is far more bureaucratic and institutional than in others. The article ends with a discussion of managerial implicatio ns and suggestions for further research.