Using interview data from managers in eight German and Japanese corporate HQs and their subsidiaries in Japan or Germany, we provide the first large-scale empirical analysis of the language barrier and its solutions. We found that language is an important barrier, slowing down and increasing the...

Vorwort -- Kapitel 1: Ein paar Bemerkungen vorweg -- Kapitel 2: Vorbereitungen für die Entdeckungsreise.-Kapitel 3: Im Land des Verstandes -- Kapitel 4: Das Land des Körpers -- Kapitel 5: Das Land des Herzens -- Kapitel 6: Orientierung unterwegs -- Kapitel 7: Das integrierte Team.

This volume links the key elements of cross-cultural management and the particularities of an international context, with the tools and techniques of project management. Key features include: a wide variety of examples and illustrations, student excercises and review questions and detailed...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the pervasive problem of a lack of replication studies in international business based on van Witteloostuijn’s (2016) commentary “What happened to Popperian Falsification?” Design/methodology/approach The author presents two short case...

Purpose: In response to the somewhat paradoxical combination of increasing diversity in the global workforce and the resurgence of nationalism in an era of global mobility, the purpose of this paper is to uncover how employees on international assignments respond to exposure to new cultures....

This study offers an empirical test and extension of the Bartlett and Ghoshal typology of multinational companies (MNCs) A three-fold typology of multinational companies: Global, Multidomestic and Transnational is developed from the literature. This typology is tested using data from 166...

Social interaction between managers from different units of a multinational enterprise (MNE) has been shown to be an important factor stimulating intra-MNE knowledge-sharing. Face-to-face social interactions form a communication channel particularly conducive to the transfer of tacit,...

This paper investigates publication patterns of Australian academics in Economics & Business. I show that this discipline follows the general Australian trend of declining impact, measured as citations per paper, from the mid-1990s. However, the gap in Australia's ranking of publication quantity...