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Building cross-cultural competence : how to create wealth from conflicting values / Charles M. Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars ; illustrations by David Lewis.

By: Hampden-Turner, Charles.
Contributor(s): Lewis, David | Trompenaars, Alfons.
Publisher: Chichester, England : John Wiley, c2000Description: xi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0471495271 (hbk.); 9780471495277 (hbk.).Subject(s): Communication in management -- Social aspects | International business enterprises -- Management | Intercultural communicationDDC classification: 658.049
Contents:
Acknowledgments. - Introduction. - 1. Universalism-Particularism: The Dilemma. - 2. Reconciling Universalism and Particularism: Stories and Cases. - 3. Individualism-Communitarianism: The Dilemma. - 4. Reconciling Individualism and Communitarianism: Stories and Cases. - 5. Specificity-Diffuseness: The Dilemma. - 6. Reconciling Specificity with Diffuseness: Stories and Cases. - 7. Achieved-Ascribed Status: The Dilemma. - 8. Reconciling Achieved with Ascribed Status: Stories and Cases. - 9. Inner Direction versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma. - 10. Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction : Stories and Cases. - 11. Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma. - 12. Reconciling Sequential with Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases. - Appendix 1. Dilemma Theory and Its Origins. - Appendix 2. Exercises in Reconciliation. - Appendix 3. Measuring Transcultural Competence: Old and New Questionnaires. - Appendix 4. The Space Between Dimensions. - Bibliography. - Filmography. - Index.
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Acknowledgments. - Introduction. - 1. Universalism-Particularism: The Dilemma. - 2. Reconciling Universalism and Particularism: Stories and Cases. - 3. Individualism-Communitarianism: The Dilemma. - 4. Reconciling Individualism and Communitarianism: Stories and Cases. - 5. Specificity-Diffuseness: The Dilemma. - 6. Reconciling Specificity with Diffuseness: Stories and Cases. - 7. Achieved-Ascribed Status: The Dilemma. - 8. Reconciling Achieved with Ascribed Status: Stories and Cases. - 9. Inner Direction versus Outer Direction: The Dilemma. - 10. Reconciling Inner and Outer Direction : Stories and Cases. - 11. Sequential and Synchronous Time: The Dilemma. - 12. Reconciling Sequential with Synchronous Time: Stories and Cases. - Appendix 1. Dilemma Theory and Its Origins. - Appendix 2. Exercises in Reconciliation. - Appendix 3. Measuring Transcultural Competence: Old and New Questionnaires. - Appendix 4. The Space Between Dimensions. - Bibliography. - Filmography. - Index.