Societal Culture and Management

i-iv -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Part One. Relating Societal Culture and Management -- A. Introduction -- ?. Some General Issues -- 1. Do Cultures Vary? -- 2. Time is the Essence -- 3. Cross-national Organizational Research: The Grasp of the Blind Men -- 4. The Onslaught on Social, Cultural and Organizational Consequences by Technological Innovation -- C. Some General Effects -- 1. Cultural Differences in Attitudes and Values -- 2. Thinking Internationally: A Comparison of How International Executives Learn -- 3. Negotiators Abroad Don't Shoot from the Hip -- Part Two. Culture and Management in Particular Societies -- A. Introduction -- ?. U.S.A. and Western Europe -- 1. Cultural Differences in Organizational Behaviour -- 2. Body Ritual Among the Nacirema -- 3. How to do Business with a Frenchman -- C. U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe -- 1. Emerging East-West Ventures: The Transideological Enterprise -- 2. Understanding the Cultural Environment: U. S.-U. S. S. R. Trade Negotiations -- 3. Back-Drop to the Evolution of Management in Socialist Countries -- 4. Eastern Europe after Perestroika and Glasnost: The Cases of the U.S.S.R. and Hungary -- D. South-east Asia -- 1. Human Resource Management in Asia: The Way Through Recession -- 2. Market Research in a Non-Western Context: The Asian Example -- 3. Cultural Effects on the Marketing Process in South-east Asia -- 4. Cultural Consequences for Organization Change in a South-east Asian State: Brunei -- ?. China -- 1. The Psychology of Chinese Organizational Behaviour -- 2. Symbolism in Cross-Cultural Trade: Making Chinese Symbols Work For You -- 3. Culture and the Problems of Chinese Management -- 4. The China Trade: Making the Deal Work -- 5. Human Resource Practices in the People's Republic of China -- F. Japan -- 1. Abacus and Formula Thinking -- 2. Does Japanese Management Style Have a Message for American Managers? -- 3. Management in Japan What Can, and Cannot, be Copied in the West -- 4. Cultural Differences at Work: Japanese and American Managers -- Part Three. Culture and Management in Contrasting Societies -- A. Introduction -- ?. Contrasting Cultures National and Organizational -- 1. The Methuselahs in Action -- 2. The Managerial Structure of a Nationally Mixed Organization in Japan: A Sociometric Case Study -- 3. The Clark-Volvo Joint Venture -- 4. Entrepreneurs: A Balanced View of their Role in Innovation and Growth -- C. Contrasts in Management -- 1. Organizational Context and Structure in Various Cultures -- 2. A Multinational Study of Decision-Making: The Relation Between Competence and Participation -- 3. Management Control in France, Great Britain, and Germany -- 4. Organizational and Managerial Roles in British and West German Companies: An Examination of the Culture-free Thesis -- D. Managing across Cultures -- 1. The Methuselah Criterion: How to Thrive and Survive in Business -- 2. The Cross-Cultural Puzzle of International Human Resource Management -- 3. Negotiating with Foreigners -- ?. The Multinational Corporations -- 1. The Impact of the Multinational Corporations -- 2. The Training of Multinational Managers -- 3. Some Personal Thoughts on the Implications and Consequences of 1992 in the ?. E. C. -- Indexes -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Communities Index -- 589-590

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The aim of the Expositions is to present new and important developments in pure and applied mathematics. Well established in the community over more than two decades, the series offers a large library of mathematical works, including several important classics. The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers interested in a thorough study of the subject. Editorial Board Lev Birbrair, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Fortaleza, BrasilWalter D. Neumann, Columbia University, New York, USAMarkus J. Pflaum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USADierk Schleicher, Jacobs University, Bremen, GermanyKatrin Wendland, University of Freiburg, Germany Honorary Editor Victor P. Maslov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Titles in planning include Yuri A. Bahturin, Identical Relations in Lie Algebras (2019)Yakov G. Berkovich, Lev G. Kazarin, and Emmanuel M. Zhmud', Characters of Finite Groups, Volume 2 (2019)Jorge Herbert Soares de Lira, Variational Problems for Hypersurfaces in Riemannian Manifolds (2019)Volker Mayer, Mariusz Urbanski, and Anna Zdunik, Random and Conformal Dynamical Systems (2021)Ioannis Diamantis, Bostjan Gabrovsek, Sofia Lambropoulou, and Maciej Mroczkowski, Knot Theory of Lens Spaces (2021)