Building cross-cultural competence : how to create wealth from conflicting values

Building cross-cultural competence : how to create wealth from conflicting values / Charles M. Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars ; illustrations by David Lewis.

Cross-cultural competence is a skill that has become increasingly essential for the managers in multinational companies. For other business people, this kind of competence may spell the difference between surviving and perishing in the new global economy. This book focuses on the dilemmas of these m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hampden-Turner, Charles
Other Authors: Trompenaars, Alfons
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
International business enterprises > Management.
Intercultural communication.
Communication in management > Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
Communication in management > Social aspects
Intercultural communication
International business enterprises > Management
Organisatiesociologie.
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Table of Contents:
  • Universalism
  • particularism: the dilemma
  • Reconciling universalism and particularism: stories and cases
  • Specificity
  • diffuseness: the dilemma
  • Reconciling specificity with diffuseness: stories and cases
  • Achieved
  • ascribed status: the dilemma
  • Reconciling achieved with ascribed status: stories and cases
  • Inner direction versus outer direction: the dilemma
  • Reconciling inner and outer direction: stories and cases
  • Sequential and synchronous time: the dilemma
  • Reconciling sequential with synchronous time: stories and cases
  • Appendix 1. Dilemma theory and its origins
  • 2. Exercises in reconciliation
  • 3. Measuring transcultural competence: old and new questionnaires
  • 4. The space between dimensions.

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