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Intercultural Management
A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy
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Intercultural Management
A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy
- Textbook
Description
This ground breaking textbook looks at the issue of managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle situation and create solutions. Applying a constructive approach, Intercultural Management demonstrates how cultural diversity can be used as a resource to demonstrate synergy and complementarity. Taking a case-based approach, its innovative case studies examine a wide range of topics in international management, helping students to explore theory in the context of real-life situations. Taking the form of an edited collection, it offers a fascinating range of perspectives from a global panel of experts in the discipline.
This will be the ideal companion to students taking courses on intercultural, cross-cultural, and international management at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level. It will also be valuable reading for organisations seeking to improve their intercultural management strategies.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction: An Alternative Approach to Intercultural Management – From Otherness to Synergy
PART 1: Understanding Otherness and Discord
1 Understanding Otherness and Discord: A Necessary but Insufficient First Step towards Generating Complementarity and Synergy from Cultural Diversity
2 Harmonizing Expectations: NSF International's Experience in Shanghai
3 Planning a Sino-British Collaborative Workshop: Negotiating Preferences and Achieving Synergy
4 Intercultural Challenges in International Mergers and Acquisitions: A German-Bulgarian-Romanian Case Study
5 How to Implement Change in a Post-acquisition Multicultural Context: The Lafarge Experience in Britain
6 The Intercultural Challenge of Building the European eSports League for Video Gaming
7 Leading Change in Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia-Pacific
8 Smart Spacing: The Impact of Locations on Intercultural Trust-building and Decision-making
9 IKEA's Ethical Dilemmas in Saudi Arabia
PART 2: Applying Competencies and Resources
10 Applying Competencies and Resources: Handling Cultural Otherness as the Second Step towards Generating Complementarity and Synergy from Cultural Diversity
11 Adidas and Reebok: What Expatriate Managers Need to Manage M & A's across Cultures
12 Virtual Chaos at WORLDWIDE Rx: How Cultural Intelligence Can Turn Problems into Solutions
13 Cultural Intelligence at Work – A Case Study from Thailand
14 Cultural Aspects of Offshoring to India
PART 3: Achieving Complementarity and Synergy
15 Achieving Complementarity and Synergy: The Third Step to Leveraging Diversity in Intercultural Management
16 Future+: Intercultural Challenges and Success Factors in an International Virtual Project Team
17 A Tough Day for a French Expatriate in Vietnam: The Management of a Large International Infrastructure Project
18 Japan Tobacco International: Managing and Leveraging Cultural Diversity
19 Leveraging the Benefits of Diversity and Biculturalism through Organizational Design
20 Going Global versus Staying Local: The Performance Management Dilemma in the International Context
21 A Parcel to Spain: Reconciling Cultural and Managerial Dilemmas Caused by the Implementation of Corporate Culture Instruments
22 Managing Glocally: Resolving Intercultural Challenges in the Management of Local Multicultural Teams in a Multinational Venture
23 Strategic Alliances and Intercultural Organizational Change: The Renault-Nissan case
List of Contributors.
Product details
| Published | Sep 16 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 360 |
| ISBN | 9781137027382 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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