An Anthology
ISBN 0-631-23624-4
Internationalizing Cultural Studies is an unprecedented resource that introduces and consolidates cultural studies literature from diverse locales and intellectual traditions.
Principles and Pracitces for Business and the Professions
ISBN 978-0-07-351188-7
A pragmatic approach that features a strong multicultural focus, a heavy emphasis on effective presentations, and a pedagogical program designed to encourage group activities and skill building.
Field Guide to the Global Economy
ISBN 1-56584-956-6
Published in conjunction with the Institute for Policy Studies, an independent research institute based in Washington, D.C., this accessible guide explains how global institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and North American Free Trade Agreement affect communities, workers, the poor, and the environment. The book dispels the widely disseminated propaganda about current globalization policies and provides an update on the burgeoning movement that is challenging them, from Bolivian water warriors to U.S. student anti-sweatshop activists.
Theory, Research & Practice
ISBN 0787955841
Assembling learnings from teaching, research and consulting related to cultural diversity in organizations, this text provides an aid for teaching, organization development and scholarship. It presents an understanding of cultural diversity and its effects on organizational behavior.
Anthropologists Talk Back
ISBN 0-520-24356-0
In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today’s most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America’s top pundits.Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior.
A Strategy for Capturing the Power of Diversity
ISBN 0787955841
As businesses, schools, and other organizations become increasingly diverse, the people charged with creating change within these organizations need proven methods for leveraging diversity as a resource. But how do you transform an organization with a deeply rooted monolithic culture into an organization that is multicultural?
Memoirs of Growing Up Global
by Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel
ISBN 978-1-85788-338-1
A fusion of voices and experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global presents a cultural mosaic of today’s citizens of the world. Twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, written by both world-famous and first-time authors, make the story of growing up displaced feel universal. Best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Pico Iyer, and Ariel Dorfman contribute powerful and deeply personal accounts of mobile childhoods and the cultural experiences they engender. Unrooted
by Clifford Geertz
ISBN 978-0465097197
In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.
by William B. Gudykunst
ISBN 978-0761927495
In Theorizing About Intercultural Communication, editor William B. Gudykunst brings together key theories that have shaped and influenced human intercultural communication. This text provides an excellent overview of the major theories currently in use and examines how these theories will also support the foundation for future research in this area. Contributors to this text include individuals who actually developed the theories covered in the book. Each contributor highlights the evolution, development, and application of the theory to provide a thorough and contemporary view of the field.
Italians, Race, Colors, and Power in Chicago 1890-1945
by Thomas A. Guglielmo
ISBN 978-0-19-517802-9
Taking the mass Italian immigration of the late 19th century as his starting point and drawing on dozens of oral histories and a diverse array of primary sources in English and Italian, Guglielmo focuses on how perceptions of Italians’ race and color were shaped in one of America’s great centers of immigration and labor, Chicago.
What Every American Needs to Know
by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
ISBN 0-618-22647-8
The ultimate family reference to the people, places, and events every American needs to know.
Intercultural Cooperation and its Importance for Survival
by Geert Hofstede
ISBN 0-07-029307-4
Despite calls for better co-operation between countries and different cultures, there is still confrontation between people, groups and nations. But at the same time they are exposed to common problems which demand co-operation for the solution of these problems. Cultures and Organizations helps to understand the differences in the way strategists and their followers think, offering practical solutions for those in business to help solve conflict between different groups.
Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures
by Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul B. Pedersen and Geert Hofstede
ISBN 978-1-877864-90-2
A guidebook book to Hofstede’s five dimensions of culture (power distance, collectivism versus individualism, femininity versus masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long term versus short term orientation) and derivative synthetic cultures. It provides more than 75 exercises, dialogues, stories and simulations for trainers, educators, and students
Leading with a Global Mindset
by Henry W. Lane, Martha L. Maznevski, Joseph J. DiStefano, and Joerg Dietz
ISBN 978-0-470-71412-6
International Management Behavior helps students develop the knowledge, perspective, and skills they need in order to conduct global business successfully.
Master the One Skill You Can’t Do Without in Today’s Global Economy
by David Livermore
ISBN 978-0-8144-1706-5
A proven way to ensure cultural intelligence (CQ), with strategies for pushing your score and effectiveness higher.
The Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in More than 60 Countries
ISBN 978-1-59337-368-9
The most authoritative and comprehensive text of its kind, Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands is your must-have guide to proper international business protocol. With countries such as China and India taking on a more significant role in the global business landscape, you can’t afford not to know the practices, customs, and philosophies of other countries.
Managing People and Organizations
ISBN 978-0-618-61158-4
Prepare today to become a strong, effective manager tomorrow with powerful insights, solid concepts, and a reader-friendly approach.
A Multiple Perspectives Approach
ISBN 978-0-07-340499-8
This title provides management students and practising managers with an understanding of managing the complexities of organisational change effectively. It discusses the techniques and methods that can be used to aid such change.
ISBN 978-1-133-96461-2
Discover both sides of international business and how to prepare for the future. GLOBAL STRATEGY doesn’t just show you what it’s like for foreign businesses entering a new market; it reveals what domestic companies must do to survive foreign competition.
by Patrick O’Meara, Howard D. Mehlinger, and Matthew Krain
ISBN 0-253-21355-X
A blue ribbon collection of major articles and position papers on the concept of globalization. By bringing together a number of major thinkers and different perspectives, this book provides a broad introduction to the topic and lays the groundwork for an interdisciplinary collaborative dialogue.
A Reader
ISBN 978-0-495-89831-3
This eye-opening reader explores how communication values and styles can be similar or different for members of various cultures and communities.
It’s Role in Organization Development
ISBN 9780201067361
How can you influence a situation in the workplace without the direct use of power of formal authority? This book shows you how by presenting the core theoretical foundations and basic prescriptions for effective management.
ISBN 978-0-273-64663-1
This very accessible book draws upon a broad and growing literature on culture and management to discover national differences in management practice. It clearly relates cultural differences to daily business practice by using many and varied examples.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Intercultural Communication
ISBN 978-1-4039-8631-3
Intercultural Interaction provides rapid and authoritative access to current ideas and practice in intercultural communication.
A Cross-Cultural Perspective
ISBN 978-1-877864-01-8
A greatly expanded analysis of the 1972 classic by Edward Stewart, Stewart and Bennett introduce new cross-cultural comparisons drawn from recent research on value systems, perception psychology, cultural anthropology, and intercultural communication. American cultural traits are isolated out, analyzed, and compared with parallel characteristics of other cultures to discover implications for cross-cultural interaction.
A Language of Life
ISBN 978-1-892005-03-8
In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better.
ISBN 978-0-393-32439-6
This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.
A Critical Apprenticeship in Rhetorical Criticism
ISBN 978-0-205-56451-4
Using a developmental approach to the process of criticism, Making Sense of Messages serves as an introduction to rhetorical criticism for communication majors.
A Practical Guide
by Craig Storti
ISBN 978-1-877864-70-4
Can a single book prepare you to cope with cultural differences around the world? Figuring Foreigners Out: A Practical Guide can with its self-training approach! Figuring Foreigners Out is one of the few books that individuals can work through and, without the aid of a structured training program, effectively prepare for dealing with cultural differences. It is high-priority reading for anyone working with foreign cultures overseas (expatriates, diplomats, study abroad students, volunteers, missionaries or military personnal) or at home (at work, school or in the community).
The exercises in this book are intended to facilitate effective communication across a wide range of differences.
ISBN 978-0-226-80768-3
Globalization is now widely discussed, but the debates often focus on economic issues. A lucid and engaging writer, John Tomlinson goes far beyond traditional discussions to analyze the wide-ranging cultural, social, and moral aspects of globalization.
Understanding Diversity in Global Business
by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner
ISBN 978-0-07-177308-9
Since its original publication, Riding the Waves of Culture has been considered the definitive guide to one of the 21st century’s most pressing management concerns—effectively leading people and organizations in an increasingly global business environment.
ISBN 978-0-9613921-7-8
The exercises in this book are intended to facilitate effective communication across a wide range of differences.
John Snow and the Cholera Epidemic. The Decision to Launch the Space Shuttle Challenger
ISBN 0-9613921-3-4
Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
0-9613921-2-6