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Managing Cultures: Making Strategic Relationships Work - Hardcover

Hall, Wendy

 
9780471955719: Managing Cultures: Making Strategic Relationships Work
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 047195571X ISBN 13: 9780471955719
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

The book is based on years of practical experience in many countries, industries and companies, including Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Nissan, Philips, PTT Telecom, Unilever; it contains a wealth of examples and cases which will make any excutive, even the cultural behaviour and impact. It answers questions of how to live with the differences; how to manage the differences; how to minimis dissynergy from cultural differences and how to harvest synergy. "Managing Cultures" will help managers improve their business performance by achieving cultural literacy and by developing a deeper understanding of the cultural issues in the business world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Wendy Hall has had extensive experience within the field of strategic management throughout Europe and America. Born in Pittsburgh, USA, she pursued undergraduate studies at Michigan State University in Health Economics and International Business. She moved to Europe in 1985, first to the Netherlands, then to France, Belgium, Switzerland and returning to the Netherlands in 1988, having worked on a number of projects. She attained a graduate degree in health economics at the University of Geneva Medical School and worked for a short while on a strategy project for the World Health Organization in Geneva. She then attended Nijenrode University of International Business in the Netherlands where she completed her international MBA and Drs degree. Her master's thesis won the Hewlett-Packard and the Society of Strategic Policymaking Strategy Prize in 1989. Since 1989 the author has worked full time at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Corporate Strategy and Planning working on international alliances, mergers, and acquisitions. Wendy Hall has recently obtained her PhD and is now advising companies and nations on improving the management of their strategic relationships.

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If your working life is affected by the "culture thing" - then this book will offer you wisdom and practical tools to handle cultural behaviour and bring compatibility where before there was disharmony. Cultural differences are one of the main causes of failure for corporate partnerships. In alliances, mergers, and acquisitions companies just can't seem to get along with each other. Unintentional misunderstandings lead to mistrust. Result: friction! As relationships deteriorate, synergy becomes impossible to achieve. But with the appropriate tools, cultural differences can be managed. The book presents five essential cultural skills which executives should master; from "photographing" differences and assessing cultural strengths and weaknesses, to estimating cultural costs and benefits, to modifying management behaviour. As preparation for these critical aspects of partnerships, Managing Cultures is invaluable for, amongst others, European firms merging across borders, investment banks involved in alliances, mergers and acquisitions in Europe, USA and Japan, company groups formed of multiple partners, and companies whose partnerships are already experiencing cultural friction. And of course, those who have failed and still don't know what went wrong! "Managing Cultures leads to a surprising but highly important conclusion:
* cultural behaviour is manageable
* you can learn how to manage culture
Executives and managers reading the ten point summary in the introduction will want to see whether Dr Wendy Hall can substantiate her claims." ...from the Foreword by Professor H. Meij, Unilever.

Aus dem Klappentext

'Culture' has become a hot topic in management literature, now widely regarded as an important influence on business performance. In as far as attention has been paid to culture in a business context, the research has mostly focused on national cultural aspects. This book moves beyond the national aspects to company culture itself. Most importantly, it demonstrates a practical way to handle inter-company cultural behaviour. The book is based on the concept that cultural styles of behaviour which can be used to characterize predominant behaviours of individuals can also not only be applied to groups of individuals but to companies, even nations. Much wastage of company energy and business potential, which now occurs through misunderstanding partner behaviour, can be avoided by applying the principles of this book and by fully understanding that cultural behaviour is manageable. This is the important principle within the book. The book is based on years of practical experience in many countries, industries and companies, including Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Nissan, Philips, PTT Telecom, Unilever; it contains a wealth of examples and cases which will make any executive, even the cultural disbeliever, wiser and more alert to cultural behaviour and impact. It answers questions of how to live with the differences; how to manage the differences; how to minimise dissynergy from cultural differences and how to harvest synergy. Managing Cultures will help managers improve their business performance by achieving cultural literacy and by developing a deeper understanding of the cultural issues in the business world.

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
047195571X
ISBN 13 
9780471955719
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
312
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