intercultural management

Cross-Cultural Management in Practice

Cross-Cultural
Management in
Practice
Culture and Negotiated Meanings

Edited by

Henriett Primecz
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Laurence Romani
Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

Sonja Sackmann
University of Bw Munich, Germany

Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA

© Henriett Primecz, Laurence Romani and Sonja Sackmann 2011
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Contents vii xii xiv List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Culture and negotiated meanings: the value of considering meaning systems and power imbalance for cross-cultural management Laurence Romani, Sonja A. Sackmann and Henriett Primecz
2 On the road again: culturally generic spaces as coping strategies in international consultancy
Sara Louise Muhr and Jeanette Lemmergaard
3 Dynamics of ethnocentrism and ethnorelativism: a case study of Finnish-Polish collaboration
Sampo Tukiainen
4 Exploring the culture context of Franco-Vietnamese development projects: using an interpretative approach to improve the cooperation process
Sylvie Chevrier
5 The intercultural challenges in the transfer of codes of conduct from the USA to Europe
Christoph I. Barmeyer and Eric Davoine
6 When American management system

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