International Marketing, Cultures and Communication: A Resource Book for Students of International Business
by Dr. Yongqiang LIU  刘永强 
Category: Business & Economics

Today’s global citizens operate business and management endeavors on a global scale. Globalization generates an increasing demand for effective communication in diverse cultural contexts and challenges the relevance of culture in operating businesses in the global village. Communication differences are apparent in many scenarios. Expatriates of international organizations operating abroad adopt their native cultural values to motivate employees of foreign cultures with an entirely different perspective. They use one culture’s motives to move people from other cultures. In global marketing communication, the communicators use values systems of their native culture to develop advertising for other cultures. They use categorizations of one culture to describe others. Such divergence in attitudes, perspectives and priorities of suppliers, and customers with different cultural backgrounds have led to many project failures in international organizations. An in-depth understanding of cultural backgrounds and the potential impact on communication of the people one is interacting with can increase the probability of business success among investors, managers, entrepreneurs and employees operating in diverse cultures. However, effective cross cultural business communication needs to recognize and adopt an interdisciplinary perspective in understanding the cultural forces (Leung, K. et al., 2005). Therefore, we need a multidisciplinary paradigm to carry on effective and successful business communication in our contemporary global village. 本书构建有效的跨文化商务沟通理论模型，讨论企业商务战略、宏观社会文化、组织文化在构建企业沟通战略中的作用与影响，研究语言与文化在信息编码与解码过程中的作用，以及沟通中的有效语言策略和模糊语言策略。同时，本书结合理论模型，提出了有效的跨文化营销沟通战略、广告沟通战略和谈判沟通战略，并提供了提高沟通效率与效果的技能和方法。