Global collaboration: intercultural experiences and learning

Global collaboration: Intercultural experiences and learning .offers qualitative studies of collaboration processes conducted in globalizing companies based in Denmark and with subsidiaries in Asia. It addresses the specific contextsof collaboration and studies how people with different cultural backgrounds work together, both face-to-face and in the virtual workplace. The authors lookat cultural differences that are perceived as troublesome, but they also describe cross-cultural interaction processes that lead to intercultural learning and bridge-building. The book highlights how important it is to develop sensitivity to different cultural perspectives and enhance reflexivity in terms of understanding how one's own culture shapes corporate values and practices. It emphasizes that Western companies active in the fast-growing Asian markets mustbe open to knowledge exchange in both directions, not only from West to East.The empirical studies are put into theoretical perspective by leading scholars within the research fields of cross-cultural management, international business and international human resource management. INDICE: Acknowledgments.Notes on Contributors.Introduction and Overview; .M.C.Gertsen., .A.M.S derberg. M.Z lner.PART I: BACKGROUNDS .State of the Art: Cross-cultural Management and Global Collaboration; .D. C.Thomas.Danish National Identity: An Historical Account; .U.Østerg rd.PART II: INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS AND CULTURAL LEARNING .State of the Art: International Human Resource Management and Cultural Learning; .M.Festing.Expatriation: Stories of Intercultural Face-work; .M.C.Gertsen. A.M.S derberg.Knowledge Exchange and Intercultural Learning through Inpatriation: Some Chinese Experiences; .M.C.Gertsen. A.M.S derberg.Short-term International Assignments: A Means of Developing CulturalSensitivity and Building Networks in a Global Company?; .A.M.S derberg. M.Z lner. PART III: WHEN CORPORATE CULTURES AND PRACTICES TRAVEL.Cultural Translation of Corporate Values; .P.d'Iribarne.Reception and Recontextualization of Corporate Values in Subsidiaries; .M.C.Gertsen. M.Z lner.Winning Behaviours in East and West: Recontextualizing a Strategic Concept Within a Global Organization; .M.C.Gertsen. A.M.S derberg.Managing 'in between': Dilemmas of Expatriate Managers; .M.Z lner.PART IV: DIFFERENT FORMS OF COLLABORATION ACROSS BORDERS .State of the Art: Studying Multicultural Teams; .M.Maznevski.Learning from Difference: Born Global SMEs and Their Approaches to Intercultural Collaboration in Asia; .M.C.Gertsen.Global Teams: Exploring the Success of a Shared Services Centre in Bangalore; .M.C.Gertsen. M.Z lner.Virtual Communication and Collaboration in Global Research and Development Teams: A Case Study of an Indian R D Hub; .A.M.S derberg.Final Perspectives; .M.C.Gertsen., .A.M.S derberg. M.Z lner.Afterword; .M.Y.Brannen.Appendix .

• ISBN: 978-0-230-28943-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 18/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido