International Management Behaviour

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This completely revised edition of a popular text combines text, readings and case studies to help readers develop the knowledge, perspective and skills they need in order to conduct global business successfully.

Includes a unique combination of text, readings and case studies to help readers understand the practice of global business and management.
Features a new, field-tested framework for improving cross-cultural communications.
This edition includes new, and updated case studies covering a range of industries of different sizes, in almost every continent.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Contributors
• Preface: Nancy J. Adler (McGill University, Montreal)
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Global Management, Culture, and This Book
• The Influence of Culture on Management Behavior
• The Cultural perspective
• The Global Manager
• About This Book
• Outline of the Book
• A Final Note
• Notes
• Part I Intercultural Effectiveness in Global
• Management:ntercultural Communication and Effectiveness
• The Dynamics of Differing World View.Map, Bridge, Integrate
• The MBI Model of managing Cultural Diversity for Personal and Team effectiveness
• Mapping
• Bridging Differences Through Communication
• Integrating to Manage and build on the Differences
• Applying the MBI
• A Final Caution: Knowledge Does Not Equal Skill
• Notes
• Reading 1 Key Concepts: Underlying Structures of Culture
• Reading 2 Cultural Constraints in Management Theories
• Reading 3 Table, Figures 5, 6 and 7, and Exhibit 2
• Reading 4 Developing Leaders for the Global Frontier
• Case 1 Grupo Financiero Inverlat
• Case 2 David Shorter
• Case 3 Bob Chen
• Case 4 Maria Mancini - Expatriate Compensation (A)
• Case 5 Japanese-American Seating Inc. (A)
• Case 6 Footwear International
• Case 7 Hazelton International
• Case 8 An International Project Manager''s Day
• Part II Implementing Strategy, Structure, and Systems
• Introduction
• Overview
• Strategy in Global Organizations
• A Global Integration and Local Responsiveness
• New Market Entry Mode Decisions
• Culture''s Influence on Strategy and Implementation
• The right Strategy
• Some Questions
• Business Risk
• Structures: Organizing for Effectiveness.Culture''s Influence on Structure
• Organizational Structures: Some Observations
• Systems: Managing the Global Organization
• A perspective on Human Resource Management Systems
• Organizational Systems: Transfer, Adapt, or Create?
• Expatriates and Inpatriates: A Key Means for Coordination and Integration
• Selection.Training
• The Reality of Culture Shock
• Repatriation
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Reading 5 Global Execution: Have you Forgotten what 95% of Management is All About?
• Reading 6 From Battlefields to Corporate Boardroom: Lessons from Sun Tsu''s Art of War
• Reading 7 Cross-Cultural Cooperative Behavior in Joint Ventures in LDCs
• Reading 8 Competitive Frontiers: Women Managing Across Borders
• Reading 9 Serving Two Masters: Managing the Dual Allegiance of Expatriate Employees
• Case 9 Anderson Consulting (Europe): Entering the Business of Business Integration
• Case 10 Global Multi-Products Chile
• Case 11 ABB Poland
• Case 12 Five Star Beer: Pay for Performance
• Case 13 Moscow Aerostar
• Case 14 Robert Mondavi Corporation: Caliterra (A)
• Case 15 Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Korea
• Case 16 Marconi Telecommunications Mexico
• Part III Corporate Social Behavior in a Global Economy: Competing with Integrity:Overview
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Ehtical Issues.Some Examples
• Responding to Ethical Problems
• Ethical versus Legal Behaviour
• Ethical Framework
• Consequential Theories
• Rule-based Theories
• Cultural Theories
• Integrity and Ethical Behavior.Some Guidelins to Consider
• Notes
• Reading 10 Exporting Mental Models: Global Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
• Reading 11 In Search of the Moral

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Joseph J. DiStefano is a Professor at the International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, and Professor Emeritus at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. He recently spent three years practicing what he teaches, by setting up UWO's first off-shore operations in Hong Kong.

Martha Maznevski is an Assistant Professor of Commerce at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia.