Cross-Cultural Management: A Knowledge Management Perspective

PART 1: ANTHROPOLOGY S AWKWARD LEGACY TO THE MANAGER'S WORLD 1. Culture: the specious scapegoat 2. The anthropologist's legacy 3. Some consequences of culture's consequences 4. Navigating knowledge management 5. Towards culture as an object of knowledge management PART 2: CASE STUDIES: MAKING SENSE OF CULTURE FROM A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE 6. Case study 1: Novo Nordisk: cross-cultural management as facilitation 7. Case study 2: Matsushita Electric: A learning history 8. Case study 3: LEGO: transferring identity knowledge 9. Case study 4: Sulzer Infra: creating one winning team PART III: REDESIGNING CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AS A KNOWLEDGE DOMAIN 11. Language: management's lost continent 12. The cross-cultural management and the translation of common knowledge 13. Cross-cultural management: synergies for participative competence Glossary