Dear Colleagues,
Thank you so much for your responses to my request concerning cases and film cases for cross-cultural management course.
As I promised, I am forwarding you a summary of all responses.
1) Regina Herzfeldt:
Cases: Dave Thomas (2003). Readings and Cases in International Management : A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Newbury Park, Sage.
Movies that I use for cross-cultural awareness are:
Harry Potter & The goblet of fire – the scene where Hogwarts' students first meet and ridicule Beauxbatons and Durmstrangs. It's a great scene to show people's usual reactions to cultural differences (respect, fear, detest, ridiculing etc.).
James Bond – You only live twice – his reactions and interactions with Japanese and Chinese culture is most hilarious, if you manage not to take the stereotypes displayed all too seriously. For example, you can see his unease about marrying Mie Hama, and his unease about the whole ceremony, but he manages quite well – simply by imitating others and listening to all advice he could get. That's actually a good strategy.
2) Maureen Maguire Lewis: Please visit this web site for cross-cultural negotiation simulations. These cases and simulations have been used by dozens of universities, world-wide.
http://www.culturescrossing.com
3) Gary B. Roberts: The first film I can think of for cross cultural management issues is Crash which won the best film award this week. It explains how the USA is not a homogenious culture.
4) Joseph E Champoux: See available film-based teaching materials from Thomson South-Western (http://champoux.swlearning.com)
5) Dirk Matten: This one is just fantastic: Mondovino
http://www.mondovinofilm.com/
6) Timothy Devinney: If you want things with more academic content, consumption, markets and culture published a dvd issue late last year. There are articles attached to each dvd.
7) Richard Linowes: You might find the attached case of interest. I have just completed it, and it gives good insight into the Arab world. If you are interested, I can share numerous other cases that I have produced in conjunction with USAID.
8) Mary M. Maloney: The case Four Seasons Goes to Paris (Harvard) in other courses, and think it has some good lessons.
9) Daniel Rottig: I am teaching a course in International Business with some emphasis on cross-cultural management. Whereas I have been looking through a number of short films on this topic domain, I found one video particularly helpful. The name is "Mustang Jeans: Doing Business Across Cultures" (about 15 minutes in lengths and provided by the McGraw-Hill Higher Education). This video shows the negotiation between an ethnocentric US-manager and a potential Japanese client, and effectively shows the difference in cross-cultural negotiation styles. The video especially well depicts the difference between low context (US-American) and high context (Japanese) cultures and the issue of saving face. This video has always been very much liked by my students and generated very interesting class discussions.
10) Kati Haynes: I use select chapters of the documentary "The Corporation" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/ to discuss ethical issues in international management.
I also use a case on Lincoln Electric for international strategy (Harvard) and Carlos Ghosn's Leadership at Nissan (Thunderbird).