Intercultural management : a case-based approach to achieving complementarity and synergy / edited by Christoph Barmeyer and Peter Franklin.

"How can organizations and individuals manage intercultural challenges and benefit from diversity? Intercultural Management is about managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle the situations and create solutions. Applying a constructive approach, this book demonstrates how cultural diversity can be used as a resource to generate synergy and complementarity. Bringing together a collection of innovative case studies on a wide range of management topics it examines the issues in international management, helping the reader to explore theory in the context of real-life situations. Key features: [bullet] Includes contributions from leading academics and practitioners. [bullet] Helps the reader develop core management competencies. [bullet] Presents authentic international case studies from a range of countries including central and Eastern Europe as well as the Asian economies. [bullet] User-friendly structure with solutions on a dedicated companion website."-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword / Günter Stahl -- Introduction : an alternative approach to intercultural management / Christoph Barmeyer and Peter Franklin -- Understanding otherness and discord : a necessary but insufficient first step towards generating complementarity and synergy from cultural diversity / Christoph Barmeyer and Peter Franklin -- Harmonizing expectations : NSF International's experience in Shanghai / David A. Victor and Christine R. Day -- Planning a Sino-British collaborative workshop : negotiating preferences and achieving synergy / Helen Spencer-Oatey -- Intercultural challenges in international mergers and acquisitions : a German-Bulgarian-Romanian case study / Petia Genkova and Anna Gajda -- How to implement change in a post-acquisition multicultural context : the Lafarge experience in Britain / Evalde Mutabazi and Philippe Poirson -- The intercultural challenge of building the European eSports League for video gaming / Volker Stein and Tobias M. Scholz -- Leading change in mergers and acquisitions in Asia-Pacific / Jenny Plaister-Ten -- Smart spacing : the impact of locations on intercultural trust building and decision making -- IKEA's ethical controversies in Saudi Arabia / Christof Miska and Michaela Pleskova -- Applying competencies and resources : handling cultural otherness as the second step towards generating complementarity and synergy from cultural diversity / Christoph Barmeyer and Peter Franklin -- adidas and Reebok : what expatriate managers need to manage M&A's across cultures / Matthias Kempf and Peter Franklin -- Virtual chaos at WORLDWIDE Rx : how cultural intelligence can turn problems into solutions / David Livermore and Soon Ang -- Cultural intelligence at work : a case study from Thailand / Claus Schreier and Astrid Kainzbauer -- Cultural aspects of offshoring to India / Craig Storti and Peter Fanklin -- Achieving complementarity and synergy : the third step to leveraging diversity in intercultural management / Christoph Barmeyer and Peter Franklin -- Future+ : intercultural challenges and success factors in an international virtual project team / Christoph Barmeyer and Ulrike Haupt -- A tough day for a French expatriate in Vietnam : the management of a large international infrastructure project / Sylvie Chevrier -- Japan tobacco international : managing and leveraging cultural diversity / Yih-teen Lee -- Leveraging the benefits of diversity and biculturalism through organizational design / Jasmin Mahadevan -- Going global versus staying local : the performance management dilemma in the international context / Fons Trompenaars and Riana van den Bergh -- A parcel to Spain : reconciling cultural and managerial dilemmas caused by the implementation of corporate culture instruments / Christoph Barmeyer, Eric Davoine and Vincent Merk -- Managing glocally : resolving intercultural challenges in the management of local multicultural teams in a multinational venture / Laurence Romani -- Strategic alliances and intercultural organizational change : the Renault-Nissan case / Christoph Barmeyer and Ulrike Mayrhofer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.