When you go abroad to serve, you’re thinking about the language, the losses,and the excitement. When you return home you’re thinking about your friends and family, the losses, and the …
Looming Transitions: Starting and Finishing Well in Cross-Cultural Service Read More »
This book is concerned with trainee professionals and their search for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a cross-cultural career transition. Adopting a qualitative research framework, the book …
Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition Read More »
This volume explores how the idea of ‘culture’ is used and exploited by transnational managers to further their own ambitions and their companies’ strategies for expansion. It thus provides a …
Transnational Business Cultures: Life and Work in a Multinational Corporation Read More »
This work explores everyday face-to-face interactions between expatriate and host national employees in cross-cultural offices of transnational organizations and corporations. Applying the concepts of cosmopolitanism, social capital, and network theory, …
Transnational Organizations and Cross-Cultural Workplaces Read More »
Educational institutions all over the world continue to attract the services of foreign-born scholars. In addition to the culture shock that immigrants experience in unfamiliar countries, these scholars often undergo …
“In Search of Intercultural Understanding” is a practical guidebook for living and working across cultures. In a hands-on and visual approach, this guide offers new insights and practical advice on …
Foreign to Familiar is a splendidly written, well researched work on cultures. Anyone traveling abroad should not leave home without this valuable resource! I highly recommend it as required reading …
Foreign to Familiar; A Guide to Understanding Hot- and Cold- Climate Cultures Read More »
This book is concerned with trainee professionals and their search for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a cross-cultural career transition. Adopting a qualitative research framework, the book …
Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition (Cross-Cultural Management) Read More »
Adjusting to a new culture and getting along with the local people challenge everyone who lives and works abroad. Whether in business, diplomacy, education, or as a long-term visitor abroad, …
An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect for both your work and personal life. Americans precede anything negative with …
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business Read More »
Right now, vast amounts of time and money are being invested all round the world in building global brands and organisations. But where are the global leaders who will lead …
Cultural Intelligence: CQ: The Competitive Edge for Leaders Crossing Borders Read More »
This book explains to those living and working in another country how to identify and develop their Cultural Intelligence, or CQ. Cultural intelligence is an outsider’s natural ability to interpret …
Assimilating ain’t easy. Eddie Huang was raised by a wild family of FOB (“fresh off the boat”) immigrants—his father a cocksure restaurateur with a dark past back in Taiwan, his …
