Includes bibliographical references and index.

This Routledge Companion provides a timely and authoritative overview of cross-cultural management as an academic domain and field of practice for academics and students. With contributions from over 60 authors from 20 countries, the book is organised in to five thematic areas: Review, survey and critiqueLanguage and languages: moving from the periphery to the core Cross-cultural management research and educationThe new international business landscape Rethinking a multidisciplinary paradigm.Edited by an international team of scholars and featuring contributions from a range of leading cross-cultural management.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Keynote foreword: the power of richness: revitalizing cross-cultural management; Editorial introduction: philosophy, aims and composition; SECTION 1 Review, survey and critique; 1 Introduction: taking stock of critical issues and relevant topics in the field of cross-cultural management; 2 Cross-cultural management rising; 3 Towards a complex view of culture: cross-cultural management, 'native categories', and their impact on concepts of management and organisation 4 Cross-cultural management at a cross-roads?5 The Hofstede factor: the consequences of Culture's Consequences; 6 The impact of Japan on Western management: theory and practice; 7 Cross-cultural management: arguing the case for non-cultural explanations; 8 Challenges in working across cultures: reflections of two executives; SECTION 2 Language and languages: moving from the periphery to the core; 9 Introduction: language and languages: moving from the periphery to the core 10 Cross-cultural management and language studies within international business research: past and present paradigms and suggestions for future research11 Researching supra- and sub-national contexts: multi-sited and extended ethnographic methodologies for language research; 12 Multicultural and multilingual: workplace communication in Dubai; 13 Multilinguaculturing: making an asset of multilingual human resources in organizations; 14 Translation in cross-cultural management: a matter of voice; 15 What do bicultural-bilinguals do in multinational corporations? 16 Language diversity in management education: towards a multilingual turn17 Language-oriented human resource management practices in multinational companies; 18 Company linguistic identity and its metaphorical dimensions: purchasers, personnel and products through the perspective of metaphors; SECTION 3 Cross-cultural management research and education; 19 Introduction: cross-cultural management research and education; 20 Bridging etic and emic approaches in cross-cultural management research; 21 Beyond positivism: towards paradigm pluralism in cross-cultural management research 22 Beyond West-centrism: the way forward for cross-cultural management in Latin America23 The present and future of cross-cultural management education in China: towards an integrated etic-emic approach; 24 The evolution of a cross-cultural perspective in Russian business education; 25 Intercultural encounters as socially constructed experiences: Which concepts? Which pedagogies?; 26 In search of an international experience: towards a 'Bildung' understanding of MBA learning; SECTION 4 The new international business landscape.