Cultural variations and business performance contemporary globalism /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Christiansen, Bryan, 1960-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2012.
• Subjects: International business enterprises > Management > Social aspects.; Management > Cross-cultural studies.; Theory of cultural dimensions; Intercultural competence; Regionalization vs. globalization; Internationalization stages theory; Managing multicultural talent; Strategic entrepreneurship; Foreign business environments and entry mode choice; Cross-border interfirm networks in the wider Europe; Internationalization of business in emerging countries: Brazilian case; Resource based internationalization from small developing countries
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"This book offers the latest research in the field of Business Performance Management in the global economic environment of present conditions while looking at business as a whole entity instead of only at the divisional level"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The theory of cultural dimensions / Andreas Michael Hartmann
• 2. Follow the experts follow the experts: intercultural competence as knowing-in-practice / Suzanne Gagnon and Pamela Lirio
• 3. Bicultural managers and their role in multinational corporations: an exploratory study in Japan / Kathrin Kiesel and Parissa Haghirian
• 4. Organizational culture and organizational effectiveness in a global context / Andrea Banto
• 5. Cross-border inter-firm networks in contemporary Europe: the effects of structural and cultural embeddedness on firm performance / Ekaterina Turkina
• 6. Understanding the realities of contemporary internationalization of the MNE: regionalization vs. globalization / Omar J. Khan
• 7. Resource based internationalization from small developing countries: towards a phase model of internationalization / Nigel L. Williams, Tom Ridgman, and Y S. Shi
• 8. Internationalization of business in emerging countries and national culture: the Brazilian case / Fabrício Fernando Foganhole dos Santos and Irene Kazumi Miura
• 9. Foreign business environments and entry mode choice: organize activities internal within or external to the firm? / Maud Oortwijn
• 10. China's "Harmonious Society" challenges corporate Japan: towards a dual vision of profitability and social responsibility / Keikoh Ryu
• 11. Globalism, culture, and business environment: a Middle Eastern perspective / Diana Bank and Mohammad Ayub Khan
• 12. Globalism, culture and business environment: a Latin American perspective / Mohammad Ayub Khan and Diana Bank
• 13. Performance management systems in Mexico / Anabella Davila and Marta M. Elvira
• 14. Business performance management from the systemic communicative and linguistic side / Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska
• 15. Strategic entrepreneurship: competitive advantages amidst globalization and technological change / Gang Yang, Hans-Christian Pfohl, and Sasa Saric
• 16. A social capital approach to inter-cultural differences: empirical evidence from a global tour operator / Manuela Presutti and Lucrezia Zambelli
• 17. Cultural models and variations / Yongjiang Shi and Zheng Liu
• 18. The impact of culture on workplace conflict in the Caribbean / Susan Scott
• 19. Immigrant effect in international expansion / Maud Oortwijn
• 20. Human resource management for the 21st century global economy / Julianne Seely.