Building Cross-Cultural Competence: How to Create Wealth from Conflicting Values (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300084979)

Cross-cultural competence is a skill that has become increasingly essential for the managers in multinational companies. For other business people, this kind of competence may spell the difference between surviving and perishing in the new global economy. This book focuses on the dilemmas of these managers and offers constructive advice on dealing with culture shock and turning it to business advantage. Opposing values can be understood as complementary and reconcilable, say Charles Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars. A manager who concentrates on integrating rather than polarizing values will make much better business decisions. Furthermore, the authors show, wealth is actually created by reconciling values-in-conflict.

Author: Charles Hampden-Turner
ISBN-10: 0300084978
ISBN-13: 9780300084979
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2000
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.74lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.42w x 1.33d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1312
Booklist 11/15/2000 pg. 593