Cross-Cultural Management in Practice: Culture and Negotiated Meanings

Contents: Introduction 1. Culture and Negotiated Meanings: The Value of Considering Meaning Systems and Power Imbalance for Cross-Cultural Management Laurence Romani, Sonja A. Sackmann and Henriett Primecz 2. On the Road Again: Culturally Generic Spaces as Coping Strategies in International Consultancy Sara Louise Muhr and Jeanette Lemmergaard 3. Dynamics of Ethnocentrism and Ethnorelativism: A Case Study of Finnish - Polish Collaboration Sampo Tukiainen 4. Exploring the Cultural Context of Franco - Vietnamese Development Projects: Using an Interpretative Approach to Improve the Cooperation Process Sylvie Chevrier 5. The Intercultural Challenges in the Transfer of Codes of Conduct from the US to Europe Christoph I. Barmeyer and Eric Davoine 6. When American Management System Meets Tunisian Culture: The Poulina Case Hela Yousfi 7. Corporate Communication Across Cultures: A Multi-level Approach Lisbeth Clausen 8. Engineering Culture(s) Across Sites: Implications for Cross-cultural Management of Emic Meanings Jasmin Mahadevan 9. Negotiating Meaning Across Borders (Finally!): Western Management Training in Eastern Europe Snejina Michailova and Graham Hollinshead 10. Intercultural Integration in Sino - Brazilian Joint Ventures Guilherme Azevedo 11. Divorcing Globalization from Orientalism: Resembling Economies and Global Value Added Iris Rittenhofer 12. Culture and Negotiated Meaning: Implications for Practitioners Sonja A. Sackmann, Laurence Romani and Henriett Primecz Index