1st Edition

Managing Corporate Values in Diverse National Cultures The Challenge of Differences

By Philippe d'Iribarne Copyright 2012
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

How should a Western company manage cross-culturally corporate values in its foreign subsidiaries? Do these values make sense everywhere and can they assumed to be universal or, on the contrary, are they culturally Western specific? Philippe d’Iribarne provides answers to these timely and urgent questions, based on research carried out in the subsidiaries of a leading global company, Lafarge,... Read more

1. France and the United States: Two Sets for a Single  2. China: Between Guanxi and Celestial Bureaucracy  3. Unity and Tribalism in Jordan  4. Local Forms of Support in all their Diversity: A Cross-Company Survey  5. Values Materialize Within a Diversity of Cultures  Conclusion  Appendix - National Cultures and Management: An Interpretative Approach

Biography

Philippe d’Iribarne is Managing Director of Gestion et Société (Management and Society), at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris, France

"Reading this book, one is immersed in a thorough and original piece of work showing in different cultural working contexts, how relative the meaning of certain values can be: in this instance, corporate values."

Eléonore Mandel Ecole de Management de Normandie