Foundations of Cross Cultural Management

International studies of cultures and organizations continue to increase in significance. Cross Cultural Management gives researchers and academics access to classic works underlying current controversies in international organization studies. Scholars is this field require an understanding of the background readings of current work which can only be attained by being exposed to key publications in anthropology, economics, sociology and psychology. They also require exposure to influential early publications that have particularly focused on cross cultural and international issues in management. In short, this major will provide ready access to classic and contemporary materials that provide people interested in international organization studies and cross cultural management with the insight to understand current developments.

Editors’ Introduction: The Foundations of Cross Cultural Management

MarkF.Peterson and MikaelSondergaard

The purpose of the Foundations of Cross Cultural Management book set is to promote access to classic and highly influential works underlying the main current themes and controversies in international organization studies. The anticipated audience is graduate students and faculty seeking to deepen their background in cross cultural management, particularly from a broad disciplinary range of classic materials that are more often cited than read and that are difficult to locate.

The selection of readings began from a series of doctoral seminars conducted over a 10 year period. One version of this seminar series is a semester-length course conducted in the United States, and the other version is a week-long doctoral masterclass conducted in Europe (Peterson ...

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