This book provides a comprehensive resource which establishes the field of cross-cultural management for the contemporary era - moving beyond dated models of cultural interaction and adopting a global world-view.

Nigel Holden is Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School, UK.

Snejina Michailova is Professor of International Business at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Susanne Tietze is Professor of Management at Keele University, UK.

Keynote Foreword (Mary Yoko Brannen) Editorial Introduction (Nigel Holden, Snejina Michailova and Susanne Tietze) Section 1: Review, Survey and Critique 1.Introduction (Sonja Sackmann) 2.Cross-Cultural Management Rising (Margaret Phillips and Sonja Sackmann) 3.Towards a Complex View of Culture (Fiona Moore) 4.Cross-Cultural Management at a Cross-Roads? (Wolfgang Mayrhofer and Katharina Pernkopf-Konhäusner) 5.The Hofstede Factor (Sierk Ybema and Pál Nyíri) 6.The Impact of Japan on Western Management (Christina Ahmadjian and Ulrike Schaede) 7.Cross-Cultural Management: Arguing the case for non-cultural explanations (Vlad Vaiman and Nigel Holden) 8.Challenges of Working and Conducting Business in Cross Cultures (Mikael Søndergaard and Sonja Sackmann) Section 2: Language and Languages 9.Introduction (Terry Mughan) 10.Cross-Cultural Management and Language Studies Within IB Research (Markus Pudelko, Ann-Wil Harzing and Helen Tenzer) 11.Researching Supra- and Sub-National Contexts (Anders Klitmøller, Jakob Lauring and Toke Bjerregard) 12.Multicultural and Multilingual (Priscilla Goby and Catherine Nickerson) 13.Multilinguaculturing (P. Yanaprasart) 14.Translation in Cross-Cultural Management (Chris Steyaert and Maddy Janssens) 15.What Bicultural-Bilinguals do in Multinational Corporations (Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen) 16.Language Diversity in Management Education (Linda Cohen, Jane Kassis-Henderson and Philippe Lecomte) 17.Language-Oriented Human Resource Management Practices in Multinational Companies (Vesa Peltokorpi) 18.Company Linguistic Identity and its Metaphorical Dimensions (Magdalena Bielenia-Grajewska) Section 3: Cross-Cultural Management Research and Education 19.Introduction (Gavin Jack) 20.Bridging Etic and Emic Approaches in Cross-Cultural Management Research (Jia He and Fons J. R. van de Vijver) 21.Beyond Positivism (Ajnesh Prasad) 22.Beyond West-Centrism (Alfredo Behrens) 23.The Present and Future of Cross-Cultural Management Education in China (Yunxia Zhu and Zhaohui Wang) 24.The Evolution of a Cross-Cultural Perspective in Russian Business Education (Sheila M. Puffer, Daniel J. McCarthy, Anna Gryaznova and Vyacheslav Boltrukevich) 25.Intercultural Encounters as Socially Constructed Experiences (Prue Holmes) 26.In Search of an International Experience (Sarah Robinson) Section 4: The New International Business Landscape 27. Introduction (Fiona Moore) 28.Global Innovation through Cross-Cultural Collaboration (Karina R. Jensen) 29.Culture in the Audit File (Olof P.G. Bik) 30.Cyber-Threats and Cybersecurity Challenges (Nir Kshetri and Lailani Laynesa Alcantara) 31.A Nation of Money and Sheep (Már Wolfgang Mixa) 32.The Evolving World of the Cross-Cultural Manager as a Corporate and Socio-Political Actor (Ödül Bozkurt) 33.Under Construction But Open for Business (Leila DeVriese) 34.Transformational Leadership (Gregory Bott) 35.Indian Boundary Spanners in Cross-Cultural and Inter-Organisational Teamwork (Anne-Marie Søderberg) 36.'Looking Forward by Looking Back': A transdisciplinary self/other perspective on intercultural expatriate research (David Guttormsen) Section 5: Rethinking a Multidisciplinary Paradigm 37.Introduction (Janne Tienari) 38.Interdisciplinary Research of Cultural Diversity (Slawek Magala) 39.Post-Colonial Feminist Contributions to Cross-Cultural Management (Banu Özkazanc-Pan) 40.What Cross-Cultural Management Doesn't Tell Us (Matti Nojonen) 41.Making Sense of Gender Equality Across Cultures (Mariana I. Paludi and Jean Helms Mills) 42.Reproducing Self and the Other (Michal Frenkel, Irina Lyan and Gili Drori) 43.Finns, Russians, and the Smokescreen of Culture (Alexei Koveshnikov) 44.Management is Back! (Johanna Saarinen and Rebecca Piekkari) 45. A Multiparadigm Analysis of Cross-Cultural Encounters (Henriett Primecz, Laurence Romani and Katalin Topcu)