Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 The paradoxical consequences of ‘the perfect accent’! A critical approach to cross-cultural interactions

Jane Kassis-Henderson and Linda Cohen

Chapter 2 Race and privilege in CCM: A cross-cultural life-story

Simon Cedrick Nunka Dikuba and Jasmin Mahadevan

Chapter 3 From Impossibility to Visibility: An intersectional approach to LGBT Muslims and its benefits for CCM

Momin Rahman and Sébastien Chehaitly

Chapter 4 Corporate Christmas: Sacred or profane? The case of a Hungarian subsidiary of a Western MNC

Anna Laura Hidegh and Henriett Primecz

Chapter 5 Wasta in Jordanian banking: An emic approach to a culture-specific concept of social networking and its power-implications

Sa’ad Ali and David Weir

Chapter 6 Selling cultural difference: The position and power of cross-cultural consultants

François Goxe

Chapter 7 Configurations of power and cultural explanations: The Case of a Chinese-Pakistani mining project

Qahraman Kakar and Jasmin Mahadevan

Chapter 8 Cultural rhetoric in onshore/offshore project work: How Swedish IT consultants talk about ‘the Indian team’ and what this means in terms of power

Helena Fornstedt

Chapter 9 Lived ethnicity: Two ‘Turkish’ women in Germany

Jasmin Mahadevan, Esra Cetinkaya and Dilara Özer

Chapter 10 Familiar strangers: Two ‘Turkish’ employees in a Danish SME

Heidrun Knorr

Chapter 11 The ethnicization of identity

Chidozie Umeh

Chapter 12 Unequal integration: Skilled migrants’ conditional inclusion along the lines of Swedishness, class and ethnicity

Elin Hunger, Miguel Morillas, Laurence Romani and Mohammed Mohsen

Chapter 13 Gender initiatives between support and denial: A cross-cultural study of two automotive companies in Germany and France

Mounia Utzeri, Beáta Nagy and Iuliana Ancuţa Ilie

Chapter 14 Global North and Global South: Frameworks of power in an international development project

Hamid Foroughi

Chapter 15 Exploring outsider/insider dynamics and intersectionalities: Perspectives and reflections from management researchers in sub-Saharan Africa

Emanuela Girei and Loice Natukunda

Chapter 16 How and why an academic expert legitimatized social marginalization: The case of making and shaping a corporate language policy

Anders Klitmøller

Index

About the Author

Jasmin Mahadevan is Professor of International and Cross-Cultural Management at Pforzheim University, Germany. She is interested in studying culturally complex contexts by means of various approaches.

Henriett Primecz is an Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research interest is cross-cultural management, gender and diversity and organizational theory.

Laurence Romani is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. Her work focuses on issues of representation and interaction with the cultural Other in respectful and enriching ways.