How do business leaders think as a result of their national culture? This book provides a discussion and comparative analysis of five major cultures-- American, Arab, Chinese, Japanese and Scandinavian--and how they reveal themselves in business practice

' ... this book provides a diverse collection of studies focusing on the activities of indigenous peoples, some entrepreneurial in nature and others not. And, as such, policymakers, researchers and students with an interest in these peoples, particularly those in the field of developmental...

1. Introduction -- 2. Managing horizontal information flows in Japan -- 3. Managing with charismatic leadership in Korea -- 4. Managing the boundaries of the firm in Qing and Nationalist China -- 5. Managing the Chinese firm in Hong Kong and Taiwan -- 6. Managing relations with state agencies in...

pt. 1. Career choice of MBA students from cross-national and interdisciplinary perspectives -- pt. 2. Early influences on the career choice of entrepreneurs and managers -- pt. 3. Entrepreneurs and managers' career choice : cultural determinants -- pt. 4. Multidisciplinary perspectives on career...

"Providing indispensable guidance to how to engage in and carry out ethnographic research, this book highlights the potential advantages and possible pitfalls of this type of qualitative studies. Hugo Letiche, Ivo De Loo and Jean-Luc Moriceau paint a full picture of this fascinating research...