ABSTRACT
The continuing expansion of business mergers to joint ventures or even global players heightens the awareness for the need of efficient communication and cooperation on global markets. Nowadays, an expert clientele in the international business world is confronted with key terms such as communicative competence and intercultural competence, which are regarded as essential tools to optimise the interaction among colleagues with similar, dissimilar or totally different backgrounds. In the context of existing trans-state spaces between Turkey and Germany, the following paper outlines the perceptions and experiences of German and Turkish managers interacting in German-Turkish enterprises, subsidiaries or joint ventures in Istanbul and Ankara. The aim of this paper is to convey different points of view towards interaction in the context of business life held by Turkish and German managers working in licensed German companies on Turkish territory. Focusing on their experience articulated in narrative descriptions, the aim of this approach is to bring to light the views of Turkish and German female and male managers with regard to their perceived working experience and patterns of the quality of interaction, as well as with regard to the infrastructure, specific phenomena, patterns and ties in the context of doing business.
