Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures : the Challenge of Differences.

How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific? Philippe d'Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgen...

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Main Author: D'Iribarne, Philippe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Francis, Taylor & amp ; 2012.
Series:Management, organizations and society (London, England)
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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes; 1 France and the United States: Two sets for a single scene; The company as part of society; The company and its employees; Likely cross-influences; Conclusion; Notes; 2 China: Between guanxi and celestial bureaucracy; A Chinese view of power; A just and nurturing order; The potentiality of a culture; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Unity and tribalism in Jordan; A large gap between the ideal of unity and actual experience; Accommodating foreign management; A cultural setting; Conclusion; Notes. 
505 8 |a 4 Local forms of support in all their diversity: A comparative surveyEmployee support for the company and its policies: cultural logics; Culture, social climate, and relations with the company; Reactions to the L.F.T. program: a French singularity; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Values materialize in harmony with individual cultures; Values and cultures; From the corporate world to the world at large; Notes; Conclusion; Appendix: national cultures and management: An interpretative approach; References; Index. 
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