Building cross-cultural competence
Subtitle: how to create wealth from conflicting values
By: Charles M. Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars ; illustrations by David Lewis.
Contributors: Trompenaars, Alfons.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: International business enterprises -- Management; Intercultural communication; Communication in management -- Social aspects
Description: "Based on fourteen years of research involving nearly 50,000 managerial respondents and on the authors' extensive experience in international business, the book compares American cultural values to those of more than forty other nations.

It explores six culture-defining dimensions and their reverse images (universalism-particularism, individualism-communitarianism, specificity-diffusion, achieved status-ascribed status, inner direction-outer direction, and sequential time-synchronous time) and discusses them as alternative ways of coping with life's - and business's - exigencies.

With humor, cartoons, and an array of business examples, the authors demonstrate how the reconciliation of cultural differences can cause whole organizations to grow healthier, wealthier, and wiser."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-375) and index.

Filmography: p. 377-378.