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Building cross-cultural competence : how to create wealth from conflicting values /

by Hampden-Turner, Charles; Trompenaars, Alfons.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2000Description: xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0300084978; 9780300084979.Subject(s): International business enterprises -- Management | Intercultural communication | Communication in management -- Social aspects | Entreprises multinationales -- Gestion | Gestion interculturelle | Communication en gestion -- Aspect social | Communication interculturelle | Organisatiesociologie
Contents:
Universalism - particularism: the dilemma -- Reconciling universalism and particularism: stories and cases -- Specificity - diffuseness: the dilemma -- Reconciling specificity with diffuseness: stories and cases -- Achieved - ascribed status: the dilemma -- Reconciling achieved with ascribed status: stories and cases -- Inner direction versus outer direction: the dilemma -- Reconciling inner and outer direction: stories and cases -- Sequential and synchronous time: the dilemma -- Reconciling sequential with synchronous time: stories and cases -- Appendix 1. Dilemma theory and its origins -- 2. Exercises in reconciliation -- 3. Measuring transcultural competence: old and new questionnaires -- 4. The space between dimensions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-375) and index.

Filmography (p. 377-378).

Universalism - particularism: the dilemma -- Reconciling universalism and particularism: stories and cases -- Specificity - diffuseness: the dilemma -- Reconciling specificity with diffuseness: stories and cases -- Achieved - ascribed status: the dilemma -- Reconciling achieved with ascribed status: stories and cases -- Inner direction versus outer direction: the dilemma -- Reconciling inner and outer direction: stories and cases -- Sequential and synchronous time: the dilemma -- Reconciling sequential with synchronous time: stories and cases -- Appendix 1. Dilemma theory and its origins -- 2. Exercises in reconciliation -- 3. Measuring transcultural competence: old and new questionnaires -- 4. The space between dimensions.

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