2nd Edition

The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management

Edited By Natalie Victoria Wilmot, Claudine Gaibrois Copyright 2026
498 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

498 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. This second edition is organized into five thematic areas: • Review, Survey, and Critique • The New International Business Landscape • Language and Languages as Core Dimension of Cross‑Cultural Management •... Read more

Section 1: Review, Survey and Critique

1.               Introduction to Section 1: Review, Survey and Critique

Natalie Victoria Wilmot and Claudine Gaibrois

2.               Taking Stock of Critical Issues and Relevant Topics in the Field of Cross-Cultural Management

Sonja A Sackmann

3.               Cross Cultural Management Rising?

Margaret E Phillips and Sonja A Sackmann

4.               A critical, interpretive approach to cross-cultural management: beyond Hofstede

Sierk Ybema and Pal Nyiri

5.               Cross-Cultural Management: Advocating for Contextual Factors

Vlad Vaiman and Vasyl Taras

6.               Like melting and refreezing ice: A national culture perspective on managerial interactions using the negotiated culture concept

Christoph Barmeyer

7.               Postcolonial Theory and Cross-Cultural Management: An Introductory Review

Mehdi Boussebaa

 

Section 2:  The New International Business Landscape

8.               Introduction to Section 2: The New International Business Landscape

Claudine Gaibrois and Natalie Victoria Wilmot

9.               Cross-Cultural Management in Flexible Work Arrangements: The Potential of International Managers’ Digital Mindsets

Charlotte Jonasson, Jakob Lauring and Gillian Warner-Søderholm

10.   Hell Hath No Fury Like a State Scorned: How Political Violence Impacts International Business

Martin Owens

11.   Cross-Cultural Management and Regulation in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape: The Impact of China’s Corporate Social Credit System

Omar Ramon Serrano Oswald and Maria Ljung

12.   Understanding Cyber-Threats and Cybersecurity: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Nir Kshetri, Lailani Laynesa Alcantara and Diana Rojas-Torres

13.   Homocolonial dynamics in international culture: the entanglements of homophobia and Islamophobia in FIFA 2022 and the invisibility of Queer Muslims

Momin Rahman and Junyi Chen

14.   Female Entrepreneurship and Post-Pandemic Recovery from a West African Perspective

Richard Nyuur, Aziz Christian Jabaru, Daniel F. Ofori and Cosmas N. Nyuur

15.    Cultural Dimensions of Waste: Rethinking Circular Economy for Global Environmental Justice

Shanzeh Javaid, Katarina Zvarikova, Uthayasankar Sivarajah & Sheshadri Chatterjee

Section 3: Language and Languages as a Core Dimensions of Cross-Cultural Management

16.   Introduction to Section 3: Language and Languages as a Core Dimension of Cross-Cultural Management

Natalie Victoria Wilmot and Claudine Gaibrois

17.   From controlling to caring: Language-sensitive research in international business 

Hilla Back, Rebecca Piekkari and Annelise Ly

18.   Terminology Management in Cross-Cultural Management: Beyond Language Standardization

Sergi Casals and Juan Carlos Díaz-Vásquez

19.   Sociolinguistics and Cross-Cultural Management

Dorte Lønsmann

20.   The role and effects of nonnative accents in Anglophone organisations

Marjana Johansson and Martyna Śliwa

21.   Intersectional Boundary Spanning: Navigating Gender, Age and Humour in Multilingual Teams

Komal Kalra and Nosheen Khan

22.   Raciolinguistic Tasks

Vijay A. Ramjattan

23.   Accent Prejudice on Hiring Decisions in South Africa: Insights from a Subnational Intercultural Context

Laura Somwe and Tracey Toefy

 

Section 4: CCM and Migration

24.   Introduction to Section 4: Migration

Claudine Gaibrois and Natalie Victoria Wilmot

25.   ‘I’ve made it though I’m an immigrant’ – Critically exploring skilled immigrants’ ‘success’ in the workplace

Andreas Diedrich, Solange Hamrin and Annette Risberg

26.   Migration Capital and Climate Mobilities: An Overview and Typology

Abby Loiselle, Luciara Nardon and Amrita Hari

27.   Employing Refugees: Between Paternalism and Empowerment

Martina Maletzky de Garcia, Renate Ortlieb and Lena Knappert

28.   The challenges of Southeast-Asian migrant healthcare staff in Japan: Focusing on institutional micropolitics and changing business landscape

Ruriko Otomo

29.   Conceptualisation of Intersecting Identities and Migrant Women’s Integration

Mahdieh Zeinali

30.   Expatriates’ Assessment of the Business Implications of Cross-Cultural Issues: A Comparison of Five Arab Middle Eastern Countries

Rita Fontinha, Fatima Hassan, Akran Al Ariss, Chris Brewster and Adam Hoteit

31.    Refugee Entrepreneurship in Context: Exploring Dimensions of Diversity across Europe, the Middle East, and Pakistan

Maria Ivanova-Gongne and Stefan Lång

Section 5:  Cross-Cultural Management Research: Evolving Paradigms

32.   Introduction to Section 5: Cross-Cultural Management Research: Evolving Paradigms

Natalie Victoria Wilmot and Claudine Gaibrois

33.   Power-Sensitive Cross-Cultural Management

Jasmin Mahadevan

34.   LGBT+ inclusion across supportive and unsupportive contexts: a cross-national, norm critical, contextual perspective

Mustafa F Özbilgin and Kram Grasyon

35.   Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Brazilian Context

Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray and Fabricio Stocker

36.   A Decade Later: Postcolonial Feminist contributions to Cross-Cultural Management

 Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

37.   Using interpreters in cross-cultural research: challenges experienced in a global south context

Pratima Sambajee

38.   The Cross-Cultural Manager Revisited: Changes on the Ground, Changes in Perspective

Ödül Bozkurt and S. Arzu Wasti

39.   Beyond Cultural Adaptation: Coloniality and AI Adoption in Latin American Business Education

Omar Manky and Nattaly López

 

Concluding Remarks

Biography

Natalie Victoria Wilmot is Reader in International Business at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Claudine Gaibrois is Professor of Global and Intercultural Management and Co-Head of the Institute for Marketing & Global Management of the Bern University of Applied Sciences Business School, Switzerland.