As more and more companies gain a global reach, managing cultural differences is an increasingly important part of every job. This book demonstrates how culture affects management practice, from organisational structure to strategy and human resource management. Drawing upon evi…
Drawing on a sample of Nigerian (N = 166) and American (N = 164) high school students, the present study examines the interrelations between cultural, motivational, and self-regulatory processes and achievement. In line with current motivational theory and research, motivation i…
“Hybrid Hellenisms: Cultural Difference and Identity in Yeats, Cavafy and Walcott” examines how Hellenism—ancient Greece in the imagination of modern Europe—is reshaped in the hands of three poets working in the shadow of the British Empire. This study argues that while Hellenis…
This study unites the burgeoning academic field of exhibition histories and the critiques of race-based exhibition practices that crystallised in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. It concerns recent practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly f…
This dissertation examines representations of Muslim women in contemporary Germany and considers them in the context of the intensely gendered politics of cultural difference at work. It particularly addresses how immigrant women are understood as Muslim women. As a consequence,…