Bøker i Cross-Cultural Management-serien

Globalization is forcing people of different cultures to work together. Leading and working as a team is never easy but doing so across cultures is even more challenging. These papers explore the consequences of culture in an international business context.

Adopting a qualitative research framework, this book describes the career experience of professional trainees from non-Western cultures who have chosen to develop their careers in the West. It is concerned with trainee professionals and their search for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a cross-cultural career transition.

Explores how the idea of culture is used and exploited by transnational managers to further their own ambitions and their companies strategies for expansion. It thus provides a more complex picture of culture than has previously been presented in business studies.