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Intercultural Management: Concepts, Practice, Critical Reflection
This textbook explores the reasons for intercultural differences and their effects on the behavior of individuals and organizations within the context of management. The text...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Management
Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace
The award-winning Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide you with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective. Author Michalle...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Management
Inter-Cultural Intelligence: From Surviving to Thriving in the Global Space
Moving between cultures has always been a challenge and one that humanity has tried to master by providing dos and don’ts lists for cultures foreign...
Category: Management
Making Sense of Culture
This book lies within two interdisciplinary fields that should be bridged: cross-cultural management and international human resource management. The consequences of globalization lead to a...
Category: Cross Cultural, Human Resource, Management
Emotional Intelligence: Raise Your EQ (Mastering Self Awareness & Controlling...
Do you often find yourself struggling to get a handle on your emotions? How many times have you found yourself feeling guilt, regret even over...
Category: Management
Bridging Cultural Barriers: How to Overcome Preconceptions in Cross-Cultural Relationships
This book provides readers with a comprehensive guide to other cultures – the often-unfamiliar ways that people from other cultures think, speak and act. As...
Category: Latest Books, Management
International Management Behavior: Global and Sustainable Leadership
Now in its eighth edition, this is the textbook for current and future global leaders wanting to lead competently and sustainably in their business practices....
Category: Latest Books, Leadership, Management
Understanding Cross-Cultural Management
Managing effectively across national and cultural boundaries is critical to the success of todays organizations, given the global environment of business and increasing diversity of...
Category: Cross Cultural, Management
When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
"An invaluable tool to help in planning practical strategies to work successfully across increasingly diverse business cultures. Riveting and thoroughly researched." - Daily Telegraph A major...
Category: Management
International Business Management (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
This textbook explores the theoretical and practical aspects of managing international business operations while also dealing with multi-cultural, multi-national and global issues of managing business...
Category: Diversity, Management
The Strength of Difference: Itineraries of Atypical Bosses
Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes by turning their differences into resources. This did not, however, mean that...
Category: Management
Intercultural Business Negotiations: Deal-Making or Relationship Building
Negotiations occupy a prominent place in the world of business, especially when it comes to international deals. In an increasingly global business environment, understanding and...
Category: Management, Marketing & Sales
A Client-Vendor Relationship Perspective of Cultural Differences on Cross-Border
This book is a must-have Information Technology (IT) outsourcing contractual management resource that provides insight into the relationships between companies who find a need to...
Category: Management, Technical
The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management
This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross-cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students. With contributions from...
Category: Management
Values and Behavior: Taking a Cross Cultural Perspective
What are values? How are they different from attitudes, traits, and specific goals? How do our values influence our behavior, and vice versa? How does...
Category: Communication, Management
The Culture Key: Successful Investing and Entrepreneurship in Frontier and...
Unlock the key to building successful businesses in challenging international markets. Why do so many investors fail in frontier and emerging markets? How can entrepreneurs...
Category: Management, Marketing & Sales
Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Tools, and Users: 10th International Conference, CCD...
This two-volume set LNCS 10911 and 10912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2018, held as part of...
Category: Management, Technical
Cross-Cultural Dialogue as a Conflict Management Strategy
This book contributes to the current knowledge and research on conflict and cross-cultural dialogue, emphasizing how respect, tolerance and dialogue may be quite effective tools...
Category: Conflict, Management
Intercultural intelligence Toolkit: best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity...
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Intercultural intelligence specific requirements: Step 1 get your bearings resources: The quick...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Analysis: Methods and Applications (European Association of Methodology Series)
Intended to bridge the gap between the latest methodological developments and cross-cultural research, this interdisciplinary resource presents the latest strategies for analyzing cross-cultural data. Techniques...
Category: Management, Research
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG AND LIBRARY JOURNAL Where does great culture come from? How do you build and...
Category: Management, Teams
Managing Cultural Differences: Global Leadership for the 21st Century
In today’s global business environment, it is vital that individuals and organizations have sophisticated global leadership skills. Communication and understanding of different cultures is paramount...
Category: Leadership, Management
Qualitative Research and Intercultural Understanding: Conducting Qualitative Research in Multicultural...
Qualitative Research and Intercultural Understanding: Conducting Qualitative Research in Multicultural Settings makes an important contribution to the fields of multiculturalism and qualitative research methods. The...
Category: Education, School & Teaching, Management
Saving Face in Business: Managing Cross-Cultural Interactions
This book explains the subtle maneuvers of what researchers call “facework” and demonstrates the vital role it plays in the success or failure of cross-cultural...
Category: Communication & Branding, Management
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About...
In Cross-Cultural Management, the author takes a critical, power-sensitive and culturally-aware perspective that moves beyond the paradigms debate, placing greater emphasis on the holistic nature of...
Category: Latest Books, Management
Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition (Cross-Cultural Management)
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...
Category: Management, Transition
International and Cross-Cultural Business Research
Successfully combining cross-cultural management and business research methods, this team of international authors provide much-needed coverage of the implications that should be considered when undertaking...
Category: Management
HBR’s 10 Must Reads for New Managers
Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these...
Category: Latest Books, Management
Global Communication and Collaboration: Global Project Management, Global Sourcing, Cross-Cultural...
Speed, social change, historical inheritance and cultural gaps are key factors which have significant impact on global collaboration and global sourcing. The author explains how working...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Management
Culture Crossing: Discover the Key to Making Successful Connections in...
People, money, and information are flowing faster than ever across international borders, putting us all just one step away from a culture crash—that moment when...
Category: Communication & Branding, Management
Critical Issues in Cross Cultural Management
This stimulating book surveys the research on the challenges and opportunities encountered when working within culturally and geographically diverse organizational settings. Expert contributors pose and address complex...
Category: Management
From the Great Wall to Wall Street: A Cross-Cultural Look...
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...
Category: Country Specific, Leadership, Management
Assessment of Cross Cultural Competence in Multinational Organisations
An organization can aptly strengthen its bottom line by tapping into its employees’ various cultural dispensations. An organization’s human resource is very important as it...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Cultural Chemistry: Simple Strategies for Bridging Cultural Gaps
Are you fascinated but frustrated by cultural differences? Have you stood on the edge of cultural gaps and wondered how on earth to bridge them?...
Category: Coaching & Facilitating, Management
Cross-Cultural Management: Foundations and Future
Academics worldwide need empirically developed, concise ideas to make their cross-cultural teams and organizations productive. This invaluable reference tool provides an essential resource for academics...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Management: Foundations and Future
Academics worldwide need empirically developed, concise ideas to make their cross-cultural teams and organizations productive. This invaluable reference tool provides an essential resource for academics...
Category: Management
Doing Business with Ease Overseas: Building Cross-Cultural Relationships That Last
THE QUEST: Cross-Cultural Connections at Home and AbroadIn this global economy and multicultural, multilingual world, bridges are built and crossed. The advice in this book...
Category: Decision Making, Management
A Comprehensive Cross Cultural Model: A study about Lateral Thinking...
The importance of world business has created a demand for managers sophisticated in global management skills and working with people from other countries. Organizational behavior...
Category: Management
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Across Cultures
If you read nothing else on managing across cultures, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important...
Category: Conflict, Management
Managing Cross-Cultural Communication: Principles and Practice
Accessible and lively introduction to the management of cross-cultural communication for undergraduate and postgraduate business students. Drawing on the latest research and incorporating the author's...
Category: Communication, Latest Books, Management
Intercultural Management: A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy
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...
Category: Management
Cases in Cross-Cultural Management
Understanding cultural differences and knowing how to work effectively with people from cultures different from one’s own is an important management skill. The following cases...
Category: Management
Multinational Workplaces: War of Culturally Seasoned Minds: Dynamics of ‘Level...
Multi-cultural workplaces in multinational enterprises (MNEs) have been found to be the providers of best team performances. Most multinational firms focus on strategies to bring...
Category: Management, Teams
Access to Asia: Your Multicultural Guide to Building Trust, Inspiring...
Create meaningful relationships that translate to better business Access to Asia presents a deeply insightful framework for today's global business leaders and managers, whether traveling from...
Category: Leadership, Management
Cross-Cultural Management in Work Organisations
Formerly rooted firmly in the domain of anthropology, the topic of culture has shifted over the last thirty-five years to become an important component of...
Category: Management
Management Control Systems and Cross-Cultural Research
A fundamental challenge that management faces in the twenty-first century is how to exercise adequate control, i. e. how to guide and direct the behaviour...
Category: Management
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global...
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....
Category: Management, Transition
Global Leadership Practices: A Cross-Cultural Management Perspective
An advanced level edited text that covers key theories of cross-cultural management and helps develop practical solutions to deal with difference in organizations. Focuses on...
Category: Leadership, Management
Intercultural Readiness: Four Competences for Working Across Cultures
Drawing on research from 30,000 individuals and their practical experience as intercultural management consultants, the authors provide insights into the broader landscape of intercultural management...
Category: Management
Practical and Theoretical Implications of Successfully Doing Difference in Organizations
Organizations need not sacrifice workplace diversity in the quest for positive global reputation and profit. On the contrary, attention to social identity 'difference' in the...
Category: Management
Organizations and Management in Cross-Cultural Context
Students with a strong grasp of the complete conceptual framework of OB theories have a greater understanding of its managerial implications, as well as their...
Category: Management
Individual Cultural Intelligence. A Comparison to Other Individual Models of...
RELEVANCE Organizational success in international business depends heavily on the individual’s ability to manage cross-cultural interaction. There is a growing organizational demand to assess and...
Category: Communication, Management
Cross-Cultural Management: A Transactional Approach
The internationalization of business via the process of globalization has brought issues of culture to the forefront of management thinking. Although culture is by no...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Management: Culture and Management across the World
All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things ‘correctly’, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric. When...
Category: Management
Culture Clash 2: Managing the Global High-Performance Team
Flying blind with customers, colleagues, collaborators or competitors? Frustrated by misunderstandings or conflicts with other organizational silos or cultures? Learn the #1 skill: how to...
Category: Management, Teams
Determining Strategies For Cross-cultural Training- India Based MNC: Multinational companies...
Growing number of MNCs have been attracted to India and many more are planning to enter India. This research work seeks to analyze the experience...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments
Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments is one of very few books to take the cross-cultural context as an opportunity to analyse and discuss the key...
Category: Management
Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom
The Matrix Model Management System is a much-needed framework for cross cultural expertise. The field-tested Matrix System is an innovative tool for story-based communication, conflict...
Category: Communication, Conflict, Management
Cross-cultural management textbook: Lessons from the world leading experts in...
Cross-Cultural Management Textbook is a practical course-book that synthesizes in a practical way contemporary cross-cultural communication and management knowledge for students and professionals. It is the...
Category: Management
Cultural Agility: Building a Pipeline of Successful Global Professionals
CULTURAL AGILITY Succeeding in today’s global economy requires organizations to acquire, develop, and retain professionals who can operate effectively around the world, irrespective of country...
Category: Human Resource, Management
Essential Concepts of Cross-Cultural Management: Building on What We All...
You may recognize the statement on the back cover of so many textbooks concerning the global environment of commerce--'to help you understand and appreciate the...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: A Guide for Global Management
The theme of this new edition of Cross-Cultural Business Behavior is CHANGE. First of all, cultures change. In markets around the world, business behavior is...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Management
The book offers an introduction to cross cultural management through an exploration of the major theories that have been developed in the fields of business...
Category: Management
Successful Cross- Cultural Management: A Guide for International Managers
This book outlines the particulars of cross-cultural management and is a guidebook for international managers. The book not only discusses the general aspects of how...
Category: Management
The Cultural Intelligence Difference: Master the One Skill You Can’t...
As an award-winning author and global business leader, David Livermore applies his social science and cultural intelligence (CQ) expertise to teach others how to thrive...
Category: Leadership, Management
Mind Your Manners: Managing Business Cultures in the New Global...
Praised by Business Week as "invaluable political and psychological profiles of each nationality ... a wonderfully entertaining view of others as well a ourselves" and...
Category: Country Specific, Management
Corporate Culture: The Ultimate Strategic Asset
Organizational culture is a quiet, but driving, influence on our perception of a company, whether as a consumer or as an employee. For instance, we...
Category: Management
International Management Ethics: A Critical, Cross-cultural Perspective
What can we learn about management ethics from other cultures and societies? In this textbook, cross-cultural management theory is applied and made relevant to management...
Category: Management
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People
Managing people is fraught with challenges―even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read nothing else on managing people, read...
Category: Latest Books, Management
Multinationals and Cross-Cultural Management: The Transfer of Knowledge within Multinational...
Globalisation makes our world appear smaller: it is easier to connect, communicate and do business with people all over the world. But cultural differences remain...
Category: Management
Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectives Based...
Category: Diversity & Inclusion, Management
Solving the People Puzzle: Cultural Intelligence and Special Operations Forces
The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability. This contemporary operating environment (COE) is characterized by complexity, ambiguity,...
Category: Communication & Branding, Management
CQ: Developing Cultural Intelligence at Work
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...
Category: Management, Transition
Cross-cultural Management: Text and Cases
And, as multinational corporations (MNCs) and Transnational Corporations (TNCs) spread their wings across nations with numerous employees of different nationalities, with their different cultures, different...
Category: Management
International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies: A Postcolonial Reading
Drawing on postcolonial theory this text offers a critique of international management. It argues that such disciplines are Western discourses and exhibit historical and current...
Category: Management
Handbook of Cultural Intelligence: Theory Measurement and Application
Cultural intelligence is defined as an individual's ability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity. With contributions from eminent scholars worldwide, the "Handbook...
Category: Intercultural Communication, Management
Managing Across Cultures: The Seven Keys to Doing Business with...
Whether you run a giant corporation or work in a small business, it’s more than likely that you regularly deal with people of different cultures―from...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Management. The case of the DaimlerChrysler Merger
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,0, California State University, Fullerton, course: International Management,...
Category: Management
The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research
Renowned international experts Peter B. Smith, Mark F. Peterson, and David C. Thomas, editors of the The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management, have drawn together scholars in...
Category: Management
Cultural Intelligence: The Art of Leading Cultural Complexity
Introducing a way of thinking about culture as a dynamic and socially constructed phenomenon rather than a fixed set of rules, this guidebook provides a...
Category: Leadership, Management
Cross Cultural Management and Negotiation Practices
Cross Cultural Management and Negotiation Practices is about managing cultural differences throughout a country or organization, according to some basic principles of professionalism and open...
Category: Management
In Search of Intercultural Understanding
"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...
Category: Inter-Cultural, Management, Transition
Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition
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...
Category: Management, Transition
Cross-Cultural Competence
Cross-cultural management is a crucial challenge for the successful development of international business, yet it is often badly understood and poorly implemented. Misunderstandings arise as...
Category: Management
Transnational Business Cultures: Life and Work in a Multinational Corporation
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...
Category: Management, Transition
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Drawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional...
Category: Management, Our Reading List
Cultural Intelligence: People Skills for Global Business
Much more than simply a list of protocols, Cultural Intelligence helps readers develop a mind-set that can be applied to any number of countries, cultures,...
Category: Management
Bridging the Gap: Managing the Cross-Cultural Workplace in Thailand
Bridging the Gap is a goldmine of information to assist foreign and Thai businesspeople working together in Thailand. Bridging the gap is divided into four...
Category: Management
Cross-Cultural Survey Methods
PRACTICAL METHODOLOGIES FOR CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH Since all research is in a sense comparative, it is sometimes argued that methods and requirements remain the same, no...
Category: Coaching, Management
Doing Business Internationally: The Guide To Cross-Cultural Success
Doing Business Internationally, Second Edition, is a nontechnical, accessible resource for managing today's multicultural organizations. Revised, restructured, and refocused from its classic first edition, it introduces...
Category: Management
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and...
The Challenge: Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be...
Category: Management, Our Reading List
The Blackwell Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management
This is the first handbook to provide an overview of the major theoretical perspectives in cross-cultural management and to look at how they can be...
Category: Management
The Great Courses: Customs of the World Using Cultural Intelligence...
Taught by an international adviser to leaders of Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and governments, this eye-opening course reveals how you can actively improve your cultural...
Category: Management
Foreign to Familiar; A Guide to Understanding Hot- and Cold-...
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...
Category: Management, Transition
Organizational Behavior and Change: Managing Diversity, Cross-Cultural Dynamics, and Ethics
Organizational Behavior and Change, 2e provides the reader with a contemporary, real-time, and conceptual approach to understanding organizational change through a concise presentation of current...
Category: Diversity, Management
Innovations in International and Cross-Cultural Management
Presenting cross-cultural research on a wide range of organizational topics, this book ranges from the individual to the macro level. Among the issues examined are:...
Category: Management
India – Cross-Cultural Business Behavior: For Business People, Expatriates and...
Divided in two sections, India - Cross-Cultural Business Behavior is based on the authors' 40 years of close involvement with India, including two expatriate assignments...
Category: Management, Marketing & Sales
