Managing Across Cultures: Issues & Perspectives

Description

Managing Across Cultures , an essential guide tocross-cultural management, has been fully revised and updated, and featurescontributions from many of the most outstanding authors in the field ofcross-cultural and comparative management. This book is concerned withcross-cultural issues, both generally and also more specifically, in Australia,East Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA. It examines culture not just inthe commonly known sense, i.e., nation-states and regional groupings, but alsoat a corporate culture level. It looks at how managers manage across differentcultures and how they cope with globalization in practice. This is anindispensable text for both teachers and students of international business andmanagement, as well as international executives; and contains descriptions ofthe most recent thoughts and insightful ideas on globalisation and cultures, the’culture-free’ versus ‘culture-specific’ management debates, area-studies andmanagement education practice.