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Transcultural Management
Atsushi Funakawa
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Description for Transcultural Management
Hardcover. A framework for transforming business cultural clashes into cultural synergy. As the global economy continues to expand, the need for cross-cultural understanding is a key component to business success. In the U.S. and Japan alone, more than two million business people are directly involved in cross-cultural business situations. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KJK; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
A framework for transforming business cultural clashes intocultural synergy.
As the global economy continues to expand, the need forcross-cultural understanding is a key component to businesssuccess. In the U.S. and Japan alone, more than two millionbusiness people are directly involved in cross-cultural businesssituations.
Atsushi Funakawa, a native of Japan who has studied and workedextensively in both the U.S. and Japan, outlines his innovativemodel for managing people across cultures. This comprehensive guideshows how the two cultures have very different ways ofcommunicating that often lead to conflicts in which each blames theother for problems. Funakawa's framework ?Intercultural BusinessManagement? has proven to be effective for transcAnding differencesand breaking down communication barriers to form a constructivedialogue across cultures. By applying this revolutionary model,companies can remake themselves into truly geocentricorganizations.
As the global economy continues to expand, the need forcross-cultural understanding is a key component to businesssuccess. In the U.S. and Japan alone, more than two millionbusiness people are directly involved in cross-cultural businesssituations.
Atsushi Funakawa, a native of Japan who has studied and workedextensively in both the U.S. and Japan, outlines his innovativemodel for managing people across cultures. This comprehensive guideshows how the two cultures have very different ways ofcommunicating that often lead to conflicts in which each blames theother for problems. Funakawa's framework ?Intercultural BusinessManagement? has proven to be effective for transcAnding differencesand breaking down communication barriers to form a constructivedialogue across cultures. By applying this revolutionary model,companies can remake themselves into truly geocentricorganizations.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787903237
SKU
V9780787903237
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About Atsushi Funakawa
ATSUSHI FUNAKAWA is program director of organizational learning and global development at Globis Corporation in Tokyo. His seminars on global organizational management have assisted thousands of professionals throughout Asia, the United States, Russia, and Europe in their quest to build cultural synergy across their organizations. He brings seventeen years of multicultural corporate experience to the writing of this book.
Reviews for Transcultural Management
"Highly recommAnded for anyone interested in the theory or practiceof global business relationships, particularly between Japanese andAmericans. Full of excellent examples and applications." (Robert T.Moran, Ph.D., professor of international studies, ThunderbirdAmerican Graduate School of International Management) "This book brings a new identity to business based on a culturalintervention for adapting, surviving, and prospering in a new age."(Hiroyuki Sawada, president, Gemini Consulting (Japan), Inc) "This is the first business management book based on a trulymulticultural perspective. Only a multilingual, multicultural,multiorganization consultant can render such keen insights intomanaging today's multicultural organizations. Funakawa offers solidtheories, realistic strategies, and crucial communication methods.I highly recommend this book to any manager who wants to take on agenuine global perspective." (T. Todd Imahori, Ph.D., associateprofessor, San Francisco State University) "This is a rare book of great importance. It provides comprehensiveperspectives and guidelines on cultural aspects of global businessmanagement that are critically important to business success buttoo often neglected by international managers." (Masazumi Ishii,managing director, AZCA, Inc) "This book presents the best Japanese-American cultural paradigm Ihave seen for business. Funakawa respects and carefully explainsthe relevant differences in the cultures while providing anexcellent blAnd of theory and the facts. If your task is to developa new organizational culture in Japan, reading this book is thebest way to gain the needed understanding and at the same time avery practical place to start." (Rex Valentine, general manager,Diabetes Health Care, Nippon Becton Dickinson Company, Ltd.) "As an international business consultant I highly recommend thisbook, not only to anyone doing business with Japan, but also to keypeople in companies doing international business anywhere."(William T. Grubb, managing director, InterContinental MarketingSystems) "Transcultural Management provides the critical linkage of suchsoft issues as culture and communication and hard corporatestrategies. Funakawa has proved the importance of the convergencefor practitioners." (Hisataka Takasugi, managing director, DentsuBurson-Marsteller Co., Ltd.)