The recent past shows a growing interest in cultural specificities. This new-found focus has its origin in reports about corporate practices indicating that globally standardized information systems are not effective in every culture. One explanation for this observation is that information use...

This handbook deals with the question of how people can best live and work with others who come from very different cultural backgrounds. 'Handbook of Intercultural Training' provides an overview of current trends and issues in the field of intercultural training

The paper aims to find the link between cultural difference of global virtual teams and their competitive advantage by examining contributions of cultural difference/diversity to firm's innovation, knowledge sharing, team member's motivation and firm decision-making, and relations in between....

This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. We posit that cross-country differences in egalitarianism - a cultural orientation manifested in intolerance for abuses of market and political power and support for protection of less...