Authors: Gannon, Kl Newman Kl, Martin J. Gannon
ISBN-13: 9780631214304, ISBN-10: 0631214305
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Martin J. Gannon is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Global Business, Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland at College Park. He has authored or co-authored 13 books including Managing without Traditional Methods: International Innovations in Human Resource Management (1996), Ethical Dimensions of International Management (1997), Dynamics of Competitive Strategy (1992) and Understanding Global Cultures (2001).
Karen L. Newman is Dean of the School of the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond. She is the co-author of Managing Radical Organizational Change (1998).
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 applied to real-world situations.
List of Figures | ||
List of Tables | ||
List of Contributors | ||
Preface | ||
Editors' Introduction | ||
Pt. I | Frameworks for Cross-Cultural Management | 1 |
1 | National Culture and Economic Growth | 5 |
2 | Generic Individualism and Collectivism | 16 |
Pt. II | Strategy, Structure, and Inter-Organizational Relationships | 47 |
3 | Cultures, Institutions, and Strategic Choices: Toward an Institutional Perspective on Business Strategy | 52 |
4 | Knowledge Acquisition through Alliances: Opportunities Challenges | 67 |
5 | Cooperative Strategies Between Firms: International Joint Ventures | 78 |
6 | The Importance of the Strategy-Structure Relationship in MNCs | 99 |
Pt. III | Managing Human Resources Across Cultures | 121 |
7 | Human Resource Practices in Multinational Companies | 126 |
8 | Goal Setting, Performance Appraisal, and Feedback across Cultures | 142 |
9 | Employee Development and Expatriate Assignments | 155 |
Pt. IV | Motivation, Rewards, and Leadership Behavior | 185 |
10 | Culture, Motivation, and Work Behavior | 190 |
11 | Cross-Cultural Leadership | 217 |
12 | Women Joining Men as Global Leaders in the New Economy | 236 |
Pt. V | Interpersonal Processes | 251 |
13 | Structural Identity Theory and the Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Work Groups | 256 |
14 | Cross-Cultural Communication | 283 |
15 | Metaphor and the Cultural Construction of Negotiation: A Paradigm for Research and Practice | 292 |
Pt. VI | Corporate Cultures And Values | 315 |
16 | Justice, Culture, and Corporate Image: The Swoosh, the Sweatshops, and the Sway of Public Opinion | 320 |
17 | Trust in Cross-Cultural Relationships | 335 |
18 | Business Ethics across Cultures | 361 |
References | 393 | |
Index | 464 |