Cross-cultural Management: A Knowledge Management Perspective

Cross-cultural Management: A Knowledge Management Perspective
ISBN-10
027364680X
ISBN-13
9780273646808
Series
Cross-Cultural Management
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Pearson Education
Author
Nigel Holden

Description

Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in international business, international management and cross-cultural management, and all concerned with the transfer of knowledge in the global economy. It will also be a valuable source of concepts and ideas to cross-cultural trainers and to various categories of practitioners within knowledge management and international human resource management. This book forges a break with the concept of culture that has dominated management thinking, education, and research for several decades. Culture, rather than being presented as a source of difference and antagonism, is presented as a form of organisational knowledge that can be converted into a resource for underpinning core competence. This perspective based on extensive research into the operations of four major international corporations, challenges traditional thinking by contending that cross-cultural management is a form of knowledge management. Key to this text are the four global case companies contrasting experiences, presented as insightful case studies about rarely observed aspects of firms cross-cultural communication behaviour.

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