ABSTRACT

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 over 60 authors from 20 countries, the book is organised in to five thematic areas:

  • Review, survey and critique
  • Language and languages: moving from the periphery to the core

  • Cross-cultural management research and education
  • The new international business landscape

  • Rethinking a multidisciplinary paradigm.

Edited by an international team of scholars and featuring contributions from a range of leading cross-cultural management experts, this prestigious volume represents the most comprehensive guide to the development and scope of cross-cultural management as an academic discipline.

section |76 pages

Review, survey and critique

chapter |9 pages

Towards a complex view of culture

Cross-cultural management, ‘native categories', and their impact on concepts of management and organisation

chapter |12 pages

The Hofstede factor

The consequences of Culture's Consequences

chapter |9 pages

The impact of Japan on Western management

Theory and practice

chapter |10 pages

Cross-cultural management

Arguing the case for non-cultural explanations

section |103 pages

Language and languages: moving from the periphery to the core

chapter |6 pages

Introduction: language and languages

Moving from the periphery to the core

chapter |10 pages

Cross-cultural management and language studies within international business research

Past and present paradigms and suggestions for future research

chapter |8 pages

Researching supra- and sub-national contexts

Multi-sited and extended ethnographic methodologies for language research

chapter |9 pages

Multicultural and multilingual

Workplace communication in Dubai

chapter |19 pages

Multilinguaculturing

Making an asset of multilingual human resources in organizations

chapter |11 pages

Translation in cross-cultural management

A matter of voice

chapter |10 pages

Language diversity in management education

Towards a multilingual turn

chapter |10 pages

Company linguistic identity and its metaphorical dimensions

Purchasers, personnel and products through the perspective of metaphors

section |77 pages

Cross-cultural management research and education

chapter |10 pages

Beyond positivism

Towards paradigm pluralism in cross-cultural management research

chapter |10 pages

Beyond West-centrism

The way forward for cross-cultural management in Latin America1

chapter |9 pages

The present and future of cross-cultural management education in China

Towards an integrated etic–emic approach

chapter |11 pages

Intercultural encounters as socially constructed experiences

Which concepts? Which pedagogies?

chapter |10 pages

In search of an international experience

Towards a ‘Bildung' understanding of MBA learning

section |96 pages

The new international business landscape

chapter |4 pages

Introduction: the new business landscape

Transformational perspectives

chapter |10 pages

Culture in the audit file

An empirical reflection on the cross-national cultural ‘native categories' used by auditors in a ‘Big 4’ professional services firm

chapter |9 pages

Cyber-threats and cybersecurity challenges

A cross-cultural perspective

chapter |10 pages

A nation of money and sheep

chapter |9 pages

Under construction but open for business

Women entrepreneurs negotiating shifting socio-economic realities in the Arab Gulf

chapter |12 pages

Transformational leadership

Contextually dependent on individual and cultural values

chapter |10 pages

Indian boundary spanners in cross-cultural and inter-organizational teamwork

An account from a global software development project

chapter |11 pages

‘Looking forward by looking back'

A transdisciplinary self/other perspective on intercultural expatriate research

section |85 pages

Rethinking a multidisciplinary paradigm

chapter |9 pages

What cross-cultural management doesn't tell us

History of generational dynamics in Chinese society

chapter |10 pages

Making sense of gender equality

Applying a global programme in Argentina

chapter |10 pages

Reproducing self and the other

The role of cross-cultural management discourse and training in shaping Israeli–Korean collaborations

chapter |11 pages

Finns, Russians, and the smokescreen of ‘culture'

A micro-political perspective on managerial struggles in multinationals

chapter |11 pages

Management is back!

Cross-cultural encounters in virtual teams