Dear Mark
A book that "makes academic ideas accessible to practitioners" and give special attention to cross-cultural management issues is Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Alliances: Understanding the process" by Palgrave MacMillan. Thus, one can find cross cultural management issues (including mini cases and exercises that fit executives and other MBA students too) in chapters about choice of partner and negotiation, selecting the type of arrangement, integration management, etc. Also, special chapter on culture in general and explanations and tools about measuring cultural differences and how to manage it in all stages: planning, negotiation and integration after the deal.
The book was written by colleagues and myself, so, if you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me. The book will be published this summer.
Finally, forthcoming papers of colleagues and mine on the cross cultural management issues in mergers and acquisitions such as planning, negotiation, integration approaches and implementation, identity and more will be sent upon request.
Good luck
Yaakov
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Subject: Core readings for MBA course on cross-cultural management
Dear IMDers ,
I am putting together an Executive MBA course on cross-cultural management and assembling a reading list. The course will take multiple perspectives on the challenges of managing across national boundaries. I am particularly looking for articles or book chapters which make academic ideas accessible to practitioners .
Key topics include
Impact of culture on management and business practice (going beyond simple frameworks like Hofstede )
Institutional Theory perspectives ( varieties of capitalism and national business systems )
The problems of knowledge transfer across national boundaries
Traits and skills which make managers successful in international contexts (eg cultural intelligence, expatriate success factors )
I would be very grateful for suggestions of key readings which others have found to work well for their students. Thoughts about exercises and student projects which have worked well in teaching these topics would also be very welcome .
If you email suggestions to me directly rather than via the list, I will assemble all suggestions and feed them back to the list (fully attributed ).
Many thanks for your help .
Mark
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