Business Across Cultures (Culture for Business Series)

370 Pages·2004·1.78 MB·English

by  Fons Trompenaars

For Hasan Ozbekhan
Because he started to give us the essence of organizational and
system thinking

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Contents
Introduction 1
1 Theorganizationasaculturalconstruct 11
2 Theorganizationofmeaning:introducingvaluedimensions 23
3 Furthervaluedimensions 61
4 Corporateculture 99
5 Managingchangeandcontinuityacrosscultures 153
6 Marketingacrosscultures 181
7 ManagingHRdilemmasacrosscultures 239
8 Financeandaccountingacrosscultures 273

9 Thequestforanewparadigmofinternationalleadership 291
10 Thereconcilingorganization 315
Notesandbibliography 349
Index 353
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION