Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 23 Nations
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Book Overview
This book, a best-seller in its first edition, uses cultural metaphors to help students and managers understand, describe, and compare national cultures. In adding countries covered, the author introduces new conceptual frameworks for classifying cultures based on the works of Triandis, Fiske, and Huntington. These frameworks support students as they develop an increased awareness of various cultures and begin the challenging process of integrating cultural and economic perspectives.
New nations in the edition include:
Thailand Saudi Arabia Brazil Poland Korea Malaysia Mexico PortugalFormat:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0761913297
ISBN13:9780761913290
Release Date:November 2000
Publisher:Sage Publications, Inc
Length:488 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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Invaluable Academic Resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I have now used Gannon's book at both the MBA and senior undergraduate level in courses on Cross-Cultural Management. It is the best approach I have found for synthesizing material from the sociological, anthropological and business disciplines in the education of the manager/student with regard to organizational design and its adaptation to the local characteristics of the market, the legislation, the fiscal regime, the socio-political system and the cultural system encountered in the international environment. Coupled with Gannon's other book of readings, research translations and commentary on cultural metaphors and his book of applications and exercises for working across cultures, the instructor has the most thorough framework and set of tools for dealing with the difficult issues encountered in understanding other cultures that I have seen to date. International students in my graduate courses have unanimously acknowledged that Gannon's metaphors for their cultures are perceptively and creatively right on the mark.
Best Bet
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Gannon and his associates have written a delightful, must-read book for people who work across cultures. The cultural descriptions are easy to remember and provide much greater depth than most treatments of culture. The book provides many new insights, even for people who know these cultures well, and is very good at explaining why other cultures behave as they do. Gannon's book is so well-written and interesting that my MBA students complain that they have difficulty wrestling the book away from other family members who pick it up and get hooked. If someone asked me to recommend just one book to read on culture, Understanding Global Cultures would get my vote.
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