Managing Across Cultures

Preface Acknowledgements PART 1: THE MEANING OF CULTURE 1 The undertow of culture 2 Discovering culture 3 Interacting spheres of culture PART 2: CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT PRACTICE 4 Culture and organisation 5 Culture and strategy 6 Culture and human resource management PART 3: MANAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES 7 The 'international' manager 8 The 'multicultural' team 9 The 'global' organisation 10 Citizens of the world: on the road to responsible leadership Index

Jean-Louis Barsoux is Senior Research Fellow at IMD, Switzerland. He is the author of several books on culture and diversity in management, and has written for Harvard Business Review and Financial Times. Susan C. Schneider is Professor Emeritus of Human Resource Management at HEC University of Geneva, Switzerland.
She has been Visiting Professor at INSEAD and ESSEC (France), NOVA University (Portugal) and Zhejiang University (China). As well as her research into cross-cultural management, she has actively worked to internationalise the 'mindsets' of managers and companies. Her current research focuses on diversity and corporate responsibility. Gunter K. Stahl is Professor of International Management at Vienna University of Economics & Business (WU Vienna). Prior to joining WU Vienna, he served for eight years as a faculty member at INSEAD and held visiting appointments at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, the D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Hitotsubashi University. He has published in lead-ing aca-demic and practitioner-oriented journals and has designed and taught cross-cultural management courses at the Masters, MBA, and Executive MBA levels for universities and business schools around the world.