Vor dem Hintergrund der voranschreitenden Integration der Märkte zu einem weltumfassenden Wirtschaftssystem sowie der zunehmenden Transnationalisierung sozio-kultureller Beziehungen beschäftigen sich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschafter, die die Folgen dieser Globalisierungstrends...

In an increasingly global business environment, managers must interact effectively with people who have different values, behavioral norms, and ways of perceiving reality. Many jobs now entail an international dimension, so the need to develop intercultural competences has taken on a greater...

Managers in a global business environment work with people who have different values, behavioral norms, and ways of perceiving reality. Team members bring their different national and professional backgrounds to the table, and suppliers and clients come from different corporate cultures....

Die Studie präsentiert die Ergebnisse der 10. HR-Expertenbefragung mit der Zeitschrift Personalwirtschaft über ausgewählte Teilaspekte des Internationalen Personalmanagements. Themenschwerpunkte sind u.a. die Strategien zur personalpolitischen Steuerung von Auslandsstandorten,...

Current issues in international human resource management include global careers that differ from traditional expatriate assignments. A number of foreign executives have in recent years been appointed to positions in the headquarter operations of culturally distant organisations. These...

Based on theoretical considerations, this article investigates the socio-cultural mechanisms through which diversified firms are effectively managed without loss of control. Empirical results from extensive questionnaire surveys in Korea and the U.S. show that socio-cultural mechanisms such as...

This study focuses on how cross-cultural synergy and friction emerge in Finno-Sinic management communication, decision-making and organisation empowerment. The paper is based on a qualitative methodology and in-depth interviews with Finnish and Chinese subjects in Finnish companies in Hong Kong....

When analysing modes of navigating cross-cultural business communities most IB studies employ an etic approach that delineates how ethnically owned companies thrive and manoeuvre in complex cross-cultural business environments. This approach implies employing theoretical models and empirical...