Section I. Management and Culture
Reading 1.1 Global Managers: Developing a Mindset for Global
Competitiveness - Ben L. Kedia and Ananda Mukherji
Reading 1.2 Cultural Constraints in Management Theories - Geert
Hofstede
Reading 1.3 Whatever Happened to Masculinity and Femininity? -
Geert Hofstede
Reading 1.4 Building Competitive Advantage from Ubuntu: Management
Lessons from South Africa. - Mzamo P. Mangaliso
Reading 1.5 The Japanese Manager′s Traumatic Entry into the United
States: Understanding the American-Japanese Cultural Divide -
Richard G. Linowes
Reading 1.6 Beyond Sophisticated Stereotyping: Cultural Sensemaking
in Context - Joyce S. Osland and Allan Bird
Case 1.1 Merck & Company, Inc.: Having the Vision to Succeed -
Stephanie Weiss and David Bollier
Case 1.2 Unocal and the Yadana Gas Pipeline Project - Anne T.
Lawrence and Howard Tolley Jr.
Case 1.3 Common Bond Values at the New Zealand Office of AT&T -
Deborah Shepherd
Case 1.4 The Road to Hell - Gareth Evans
Case 1.5 Café Mam and ISMAM - Ronald Nigh, Ann D. Walsh, and
Dahinda Meda
Case 1.6 Gold Star Properties: Financial Crisis - Joseph J.
DiStefano
Case 1.7 Chiba International, Inc. - Nina Hatvany and Vladimir
Pucik
Case 1.8 Footwear International - R. William Blake
Section II. Roles of the International Manager
Reading 2.1 Values in Tension: Ethics away from Home - Thomas
Donaldson
Reading 2.2 When Ethics Collide: Managing Conflicts across Cultures
- Paul F. Buller, John J. Kohls, and Kenneth S. Anderson
Reading 2.3 Key Concepts: Underlying Structures of Culture - Edward
T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall
Reading 2.4 Negotiating with the Chinese: A Socio-Cultural Analysis
- Pervez Ghauri and Tony Fang
Reading 2.5 Understanding the Bear: A Portrait of Russian Business
Leaders - Sheila M. Puffer
Reading 2.6 Contrasts in Culture: Russian and Western Perspectives
on
Organizational Change
Reading 2.6 Contrasts in Culture: Russian and Western Perspectives
on Organizational Change - Snejina Michailova
Case 2.1 Nike′s Dispute with the University of Oregon - Rebecca J.
Morris and Anne T. Lawrence
Case 2.2 How Much Sleaze is Too Much? - Asbjorn Osland
Case 2.3 Moto: Coming to America - Patricia Gercik
Case 2.4 Negotiating across the Pacific - Xiaohua Lin and Jian
Guan
Case 2.5 Consolidated Engineering Co. Goes to China - Travis Maples
and Penelope B. Prime
Case 2.6 Kiwi Samurai: The Secure Fit Industries in Japan - David
C. Thomas
Case 2.7 Rus Wane Equipment: Joint Venture in Russia (A) and (B) -
Stanislav V. Shekshnia and Sheila M. Puffer
Section III. International Management Challenges
Reading 3.1 Virtual Teams: Technology and the Workplace of the
Future - Anthony M. Townsend, Samuel M. DeMarie, and Anthony R.
Hendrickson
Reading 3.2 Minding Your Metaphors: Applying the Concept of
Teamwork Metaphors to the Management of Teams in Multicultural
Contexts - Cristina B. Gibson and Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn
Reading 3.3 End Games in International Alliances - Manuel G.
Serapio Jr. and Wayne F. Cascio
Reading 3.4 Same Bed, Different Dreams: Working Relationships in
Sino-American Joint Ventures - James P. Walsh, ErPing Wang, and
Katherine R. Xin
Reading 3.5 The Contemporary International Assignment: A Look at
the Options - Glenn M. McEvoy and Barbara Parker
Reading 3.6 Expatriate Assignments Versus Overseas Experience:
Contrasting Models of International Human Resource Development -
Kerr Inkson, Michael B. Arthur, Judith Pringle, and Sean Barry
Case 3.1 Team Spirit at Sino-American Shanghai Squibb (SASS) - Anne
Marie Francesco
Case 3.2 Johannes van den Bosch Sends an Email; Johannes van den
Bosch Receives a Reply. - Joseph J. DiStefano
Case 3.3 Mass Merger: The Case of AON Singapore - Anne Marie
Francesco
Case 3.4 The Role of the Area Manager - Asbjorn Osland
Case 3.5 Catskill Roads - J. Bonner Ritchie and Alan Hawkins
Case 3.6 Andreas Weber′s Reward for Success in an Expatriate
Assignment - a Return to an Uncertain Future - Günter K. Stahl and
Mark E. Mendenhall
David C Thomas (PhD University of South Carolina) is a Professor in
the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria and
Professor Emeritus of International Management at Simon Fraser
University, Canada. He is the author of a dozen books including
(with Kerr Inkson) the bestselling Cultural Intelligence,
Berrett-Koehler Publishers. His book Cross-Cultural Management:
Essential Concepts (2008, Sage Publications) was the winner of the
R. Wayne Pace Human Resource Development book of the year award for
2008. In addition, he has edited (with Peter B. Smith and Mark
Peterson) The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Research from
Sage Publications. His research on cross-cultural interactions in
organizational settings has appeared in the leading journals in the
field. He is currently serves on the editorial boards of the
Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of
Organizational Behavior, and European Journal of Cross-Cultural
Competence and Management.
Dr. Thomas’ academic postings have included positions at the
Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), University of New
South Wales, the Pennsylvania State University and The University
of Auckland, New Zealand, where he was also Director of the Master
of International Business Program. He has held visiting positions
at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, the University of Hawaii, Massey University, New Zealand, and
ESCEM, Tours, France. In addition to teaching at both undergraduate
and postgraduate level, Dr Thomas has consulted on cultural
diversity issues with numerous organizations. When not teaching or
writing he can often be found scraping or varnishing or sometimes
sailing his 1984 Hans Christian cutter, “Clovelly.”
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