Intercultural management: a case-based approach to achieving complementarity and synergy

"How can organizations and individuals manage intercultural challenges and benefit from diversity? Intercultural Management is about managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle the situations and create solutions. Applying a constructive approach, this book demonstrates how cultural diversity can be used as a resource to generate synergy and complementarity. Bringing together a collection of innovative case studies on a wide range of management topics it examines the issues in international management, helping the reader to explore theory in the context of real-life situations. Key features: [bullet] Includes contributions from leading academics and practitioners. [bullet] Helps the reader develop core management competencies. [bullet] Presents authentic international case studies from a range of countries including central and Eastern Europe as well as the Asian economies. [bullet] User-friendly structure with solutions on a dedicated companion website."

Enthält 23 Beiträge

Machine generated contents note:Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: An Alternative Approach to Intercultural Management -- From Otherness to Synergy -- PART 1: Understanding Otherness and Discord -- 1 Understanding Otherness and Discord: A Necessary but Insufficient First Step towards Generating Complementarity and Synergy from Cultural Diversity -- 2 Harmonizing Expectations: NSF International's Experience in Shanghai -- 3 Planning a Sino-British Collaborative Workshop: Negotiating Preferences and Achieving Synergy -- 4 Intercultural Challenges in International Mergers and Acquisitions: A German-Bulgarian-Romanian Case Study -- 5 How to Implement Change in a Post-acquisition Multicultural Context: The Lafarge Experience in Britain -- 6 The Intercultural Challenge of Building the European eSports League for Video Gaming -- 7 Leading Change in Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia-Pacific -- 8 Smart Spacing: The Impact of Locations on Intercultural Trust-building and Decision-making -- 9 IKEA's Ethical Dilemmas in Saudi Arabia -- PART 2: Applying Competencies and Resources -- 10 Applying Competencies and Resources: Handling Cultural Otherness as the Second Step towards Generat…