Cross-cultural management in practice: culture and negotiated meanings

1. Culture and negotiated meanings : the value of considering meaning systems and power imbalance for cross-cultural management / Laurence Romani, Sonja A. Sackmann and Henriett Primecz -- 2. On the road again : culturally generic spaces as coping strategies in international consultancy / Sara Louis...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cheltenham, U.K Edward Elgar 2011
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Zusammenfassung:1. Culture and negotiated meanings : the value of considering meaning systems and power imbalance for cross-cultural management / Laurence Romani, Sonja A. Sackmann and Henriett Primecz -- 2. On the road again : culturally generic spaces as coping strategies in international consultancy / Sara Louise Muhr and Jeanette Lemmergaard -- 3. Dynamics of ethnocentrism and ethnorelativism : a case study of Finnish-Polish collaboration / Sampo Tukiainen -- 4. Exploring the cultural context of Franco-Vietnamese development projects : using an interpretative approach to improve the cooperation process / Sylvie Chevrier -- 5. The intercultural challenges in the transfer of codes of conduct from the US to Europe / Christoph I. Barmeyer and Eric Davoine -- 6. When American management system meets Tunisian culture : the Poulina Case / Hèla Yousfi -- 7. Corporate communication across cultures : a multi-level approach / Lisbeth Clausen -- 8. Engineering culture(s) across sites : implications for cross-cultural management of emic meanings / Jasmin Mahadevan -- 9. Negotiating meaning across borders (finally!) : Western management training in Eastern Europe / Snejina Michailova and Graham Hollinshead -- 10. Intercultural integration in Sino-Brazilian joint ventures / Guilherme Azevedo -- 11. Divorcing globalization from Orientalism : resembling economies and global value added / Iris Rittenhofer -- 12. Culture and negotiated meaning : implications for practitioners / Sonja A. Sackmann, Laurence Romani and Henriett Primecz
Based on the view that culture is dynamic and negotiated between actors, this groundbreaking book contains a collection of ten cases on cross-cultural management in practice. The cases draw on field research revealing challenges and insights from working across nations and cultures. Each case provides recommendations for practitioners that are developed into a framework for effective intercultural interactions as well as offering illustrations and insights on how to handle actual cross-cultural issues. This enriching book covers various topics including international collaborations across and within multinational companies, organizational culture in international joint ventures and knowledge transfer
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 165 Seiten)
ISBN:9780857938725
DOI:10.4337/9780857938725