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Working across cultures / John Hooker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hooker, John, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intercultural communication.
- Cross-cultural orientation.
- Multiculturalism.
- Social values--Cross-cultural studies.
- Social values.
- Business ethics.
- International business enterprises--Social aspects.
- International business enterprises.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 406 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- The book begins by refuting the notion that professional life interacts with culture only at the level of etiquette. Distinguishing between rule-based and relationship-based cultures, the author examines the roles of authority, individualism, competition, security, negotiation, contracts, supervision, lifestyle, and even humor in different cultures. He shows how different concepts of time, space, information, and wealth shape everyday life across cultures. The book concludes with a comprehensive reading list for more than one hundred countries.
- Contents:
- The cultural iceberg
- Time, space, and context
- Culture and prosperity
- What is culture?
- Mexico
- Germany and Denmark
- Classification of cultures
- Culture and stress
- China
- India
- - The West
- Turkey and Islam
- Zimbabwe
- Cross-cultural ethics
- The United States and multiculturalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-393) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804748071
- OCLC:
- 52031385
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