Intercultural Management: A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy - Paperback

by Christoph Barmeyer (Author), Peter Franklin (Author)

This ground breaking textbook looks at the issue of managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle situation and create solutions. Applying a constructive approach, Intercultural Management demonstrates how cultural diversity can be used as a resource to demonstrate synergy and complementarity. Taking a case-based approach, its innovative case studies examine a wide range of topics in international management, helping students to explore theory in the context of real-life situations. Taking the form of an edited collection, it offers a fascinating range of perspectives from a global panel of experts in the discipline.

This will be the ideal companion to students taking courses on intercultural, cross-cultural, and international management at undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA level. It will also be valuable reading for organisations seeking to improve their intercultural management strategies.

Back Jacket

How can organizations and individuals manage intercultural challenges and benefit from diversity?

Intercultural Management is about managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle the situations and create solutions. Applying a constructive approach, this book demonstrates how cultural diversity can be used as a resource to generate synergy and complementarity. Bringing together a collection of innovative case studies on a wide range of management topics it examines the issues in international management, helping the reader to explore theory in the context of real-life situations.

Key features:
- Includes contributions from leading academics and practitioners.
- Helps the reader develop core management competencies.
- Presents authentic international case studies from a range of countries including central and Eastern Europe as well as the Asian economies.
- User-friendly structure with solutions on a dedicated companion website.

Author Biography

Christoph Barmeyer is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of Passau, Germany.

Peter Franklin is Professor of Intercultural Business and Management Communication at HTWG Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
Christoph Barmeyer is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of Passau, Germany.

Peter Franklin is Professor of Intercultural Business and Management Communication at HTWG Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany.