...Victoria Miroshnik Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether a multinational company can transmit its corporate management system and operations management system from its domestic operation to its subsidiary located in a country with very different national culture. Design...

... Lebanon United States of America Gulf Cooperation Council countries Senior management Leadership National cultures Cross‐cultural management On the other hand, other criticism of Hofstede's and GLOBE's approaches were voiced by Dickson et al. (2003, 2006) , Den Hartog and Dickson...

... occurs at a national or cultural level of social organization. In a world riddled with tension, violence and poverty, this insight is potentially of great value. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 United States of America South Africa National cultures Change management Leaders...

... 2006 Entrepreneurialism Singapore National cultures Networking Globalization Considered as one of the growth engines for a nation – creating jobs, inventions and diversity, entrepreneurship is defined as a process of starting a business venture, organising the necessary resources...

... countries to successfully guide and motivate employees. This study will consider three national cultures – Romania, Germany, and the UK. Ethnically, the countries are relatively homogeneous (CIA World Factbook, 2003), with the following make‐ups: In the debate to determine whether basic...

... number of years. China Change management National cultures Warren Buffet, Sumner Redstone, Rupert Murdoch, and Li Ka‐Shing are just several famous names that appear on the front page of the Wall Street Journal regularly. One important fact that most people do not realize...

... Career development Expatriates International organizations France Germany National cultures In spite of my successful expatriation, return was a failure because my experience was not put to use... (Repatriate of a French retailing company) The better you perform overseas, the more you...

... effect on satisfaction, and a slight positive effect on commitment. National culture was found to moderate the effect of respondents' age on satisfaction, with the effect being more positive amongst Hong Kong managers. Employees' expectations, behaviour and performance may be different...

... although the roles overlap considerably, they are acted out in a very different manner. Implications for the findings in an international market arena are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Management roles Economic conditions National cultures Asian studies The importance of managerial...

... of Ordnung (order) is critical. Leadership National cultures Cross‐cultural management Management styles Germany England Several decades ago Farmer and Richman (1965) argued that the effectiveness of a particular managerial behaviour is a function of the culture in which that behaviour...

... with – other people of similar background. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Multinationals Management Cross‐cultural management Corporate culture National cultures There are many different definitions of multinational business. Frayerweather (1978) says that multinational business has “only one...

...Mike Berrell; Marianne Gloet; Phil Wright Investigates the impact of national culture on organisational learning in a global context, as well as implications for international management development. Studies on organisations generally accept the existence of two “cultures” within an organisation...

... enterprises, rests with the latter. Considerable disparity exists in China between these two cultural and management extremes. China National cultures Cross‐cultural management Training The primary aim of the article is to discuss the difficulties in addressing the training needs of managers...

... 1999 Management development Joint ventures National cultures Traditional explanations of management behaviour have included understandings about the influence of values, norms, roles, regulations and activity within organisations. Since the 1980s, however, management research has...

... Foreign languages Management development National cultures One of the challenges business faces at a European level and globally is that of communications. The increasing internationalization of business implies the further distribution of product processes and trade across national, cultural...

...‐represent foreign companies, service organizations and state‐owned companies (Sawyerr, 1993; Subramanian, Fernandes and Harper, 1993). © MCB UP Limited 1997 Organizational performance Environmental scanning National cultures Russia Phase 2 makes improvements over phase 1...

... childhood learning centres in Gaza. The centre wanted an education/awareness programme that would involve area teachers and win them over to the idea of learning through play. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Children Developing countries Education Interpersonal communications National cultures...

... hand, ranked autonomy as third in importance, followed by social needs and self esteem. Discusses possible explanations for the findings in light of previous research. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Job evaluation Judgement sampling National cultures Points rating Saudi Arabia Values...

.... The Centre for International Programmes has considerable experience with cultural acclimatization of foreign students to the USA, while CER and the College of Business are well versed in training design and business content. Globalization Management development National cultures USA In order...

... behaviour National cultures United Kingdom USA Work psychology Previous research has demonstrated the applicability of various constructs emerging from social cognitive theory to the study of various work‐related and vocational behaviours in the USA[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. One shortcoming...