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Cross-Cultural Management: With Insights from Brain Science explores a broad range of topics on the impact of culture in international business and vice versa, and the impact of businesses and individuals in shaping a culture. It provides critical and in-depth information on globalization, global/glocal leadership, cross-cultural marketing, and cross-cultural negotiation. It also discusses many other topics that are not typically found in the mainstream management textbooks such as diversity management, bias management, cross-cultural motivation strategies, and change management.
While most literature in the field is dominated by the static paradigm, that is, culture is fixed, nation equates to culture, and values are binary, this book takes a different approach. It regards national values as a first-best-guess and balances it with an introduction of the dynamic paradigm. This school of thought posits that culture is not static, context is the software of the mind, opposing values coexist, change is constant, and individuals can develop a multicultural mind.
A unique feature of this book is the contribution of an interdisciplinary approach. It's the first textbook of cross-cultural management that incorporates latest findings from the emerging discipline of cultural neuroscience and evolutionary biology in the discussion. Such a holistic approach is meant to help readers gain a deeper and broader understanding of the subjects.
List of contents
1. Globalization: Evolutionary Roots and Contemporary Version
2. The Driving Forces of Diversity
3. The Tree of Culture: Evolutionary And Practical
4. The Dynamics of Culture
5. Fear-Free Cross-Cultural Management
6. Think Global, Plan Local, Act Individual
7. Change Management: Creating Culture and Evolving Yourself
8. Bias Management
9. Diversity Management
10. Cross-Cultural Motivation
11. Cross-Cultural Leadership
12. Cross-Cultural Business Communication
13. Cross-Cultural Negotiation
14. Cross-Cultural Marketing
About the author
Mai Nguyen-Phuong-Mai is Associate Professor at Amsterdam School of International Business, the Netherlands. She also owns a training agency and freelances for diverse media channels. As a world citizen, she comes from the East, works in the West, and lives everywhere in between.
Summary
Cross-cultural Management explores a range of topics that are essential to provide students with a big picture perspective on the impact of culture on international business. It provides in-depth information on how cultures, demographics, and beliefs influence the way business is conducted.
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"This book is where East meets West by understanding intercultural communication in the context of [the] globalized world!"
Tran Nguyen Khang, Vietnam National University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam
"[A] very refreshing, original and innovative way of presenting the subject. This book brings a breath of fresh air to the work of interculturalists. Absolutely essential and desirable reading for those who want to thrive in the current international business world."
Agata Szkiela, European Academy of Diplomacy and Translating Cultures, Poland
