How many cultural dimensions do we need?

The research on culture as a pattern of values, attitudes, beliefs, and norms that differentiates countries or other units from another has reached the point where the abundance of different cultural models, all offering various cultural dimensions, might be rather confusing than helping. However, it can be reasonable to assume that different models cover the same cultural elements while grouping those elements in different ways. Based on already published theoretical and empirical research and new analyses, this presentation will discuss how different cultural models align with each other and with objective indicators describing various social, economic, and political phenomena. After all, although most interesting for researchers as it is, culture is a research topic also because we are interested in how cultural differences explain differences in various other phenomena and why different societies differ in how successful they are in managing various societal challenges. The presentation searches for answers to the following questions. Are two cultural dimensions enough to capture modern cultural differences across the world? How much do we need to explain the differences between societies? Is there one default cultural model that we can rely on from now on? Or is this picture still more nuanced?