Focusing on individual Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities such as Irish, Caribbean, South Asian, Chinese and Jewish, this accessible guide brings together key...

With the rise of China in the 21st century, this book offers a trans-cultural and thematic study of key Chinese concepts which influence modern day...

Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However,...

This book is the published version of my Ph.D. thesis, which was completed in 2011. It explores the intercultural workplace communication strategies employed by a...

Wei Yen explores how differences in world views between Eastern and Western thought and culture have on management and leadership behaviors. In The Geography of Thought Richard...

What nobody will ever tell you about succeeding in Canada! Matt Adolphe, an internationally-experienced communication expert, explains why certain behaviours don t work in Canada...

Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors...

The Centers for Austrian Studies, founded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research since the 1970s, play an important role for the Austrian...

Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the...

Chinese-Canadian conversations were video-taped and micro-analysed. Intriguing findings include the following. 1) The listeners recalled 50% of the information presented by the speakers. 2) Communication...

Language of Migration: Self- and Other-Representation of Korean Migrants in Germany analyzes a variety of genres that depict Korean migration in Germany.  By applying methods of media analysis,...

Intimate relationships between two people from different cultures generate a degree of excitement and intrigue within the couple due to that very difference, however this...

Child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Astrid Berg states in her introduction that “South Africa is a microcosm.” It is a modern nation, yet many of its...

This project explores what it means to be a native teacher of Japanese in an Australian classroom and how best to balance the need to...

Pre-University Paper from the year 2011 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 1,3, , language: English, abstract: The increasing internationalization and globalization has...

This is an explorative research project that investigates whether the prestressed relationship between Germans and Israelis affects business negotiation processes nowadays. In addition, I find...

Framed by a century and a half of racialized Chinese American musical experiences, Claiming Diaspora explores the thriving contemporary musical culture of Asian/Chinese America. Ranging from traditional...

This training program is especially targeted for American university students, but all exchange students, people on business and tourists can use this information to prepare...

This project introduces the concept of intercultural training (ICT) and emphasises the importance of such programmes for the successful integration of those sojourning overseas. “Countering...

Within Australia's education revolution lies another, quieter revolution that attempts to raise the profile and status, and improve the learning outcomes, of Australia's Aboriginal and...

A research collaboration between the The Open University, the University of Adelaide and the BBC World Service Trust (WST), this book is a first-of-its-kind initiative...

This is the first monograph to examine mediated business interaction in Spanish. It focuses on communication between native speakers of Spanish from different Spanish-speaking countries...

Servant leadership, as a post modern concept, reflecting the changing direction of leadership in the 21st century is getting increased attention in the leadership literature.Organizational...

Empires and Indigenes is a sweeping examination of how intercultural interactions between Europeans and indigenous people influenced military choices and strategic action. Ranging from the...

Praised by Business Week as "invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality ... a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves" and...

This study is based on figuring out the significance of cultural impacts on business relationships according to people who have work experience on the Japanese...

Intercultural communication and the inquiry to improve international understanding. What do communication and culture actually mean? How do people communicate and in which way can...

The purpose of this book is to help readers understand how race and culture can impact communication. More, specifically, the author explores the ways in...

Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this study challenges the historiographical argument that the Sephardim, and indeed, a variety of religio-ethnic groups, achieved...

The presented book deals with the central topic international and intercultural public relations and has the aim of finding answers to the questions: how does...

This collection focuses on Chinese learners with original data sets using innovative research methods. It investigates Chinese learners' learning and language skills, perceptions and particularly...

This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide...

The growth of U.S. and Mexican business relations, particularly as the result of the NAFTA, have created the need for corporations to provide their business...

What is the First Step in Developing a Successful Business Relationship with any American Indian Tribe? Understanding that relationships come first and business comes second!...

"Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster." (Prof. Geert Hofstede,...

Why has the United States taken such a firm stance against the International Criminal Court (ICC) and expended such diplomatic goodwill in an attempt to...

Sweeping the globe from Seoul to Amsterdam, London to Japan, American Citizen, Global Citizen is now being released for the first time in the United...

World problems are intercultural, requiring sensitivity to cultural integrity in order to resolve. Wu Kuang-ming (Ph.D., philosophy, Yale) has been grappling with cultural clashes at...

Globalization requires effective international and cross-cultural collaboration. When project teams from Western cultures first come into contact with colleagues from the Indian IT and BPO...