Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management: An Intersectional Approach to Culture
About this ebook
Mainstream CCM often limits itself to comparative models or cultural dimensions. This approach is widely critiqued for its simplicity but is equally used for the exact same reason. Often, academics teach this approach whilst cautioning students against implementing it, and this might be simply due to a lack of alternatives. Through means of rich empirical cases, this book offers such an alternative.
Considering the intersections of culture, diversity and power enables students, researchers and practitioners alike to see ‘more’ or ‘different’ things in the situation, and then come up with novel approaches and solutions that do justice to the realities of culture and diversity in today’s (and the future's) management and organizations. The chapters of this book thus offer concepts and methods to approach cross-cultural situations: the conceptual gain lies in bringing together CCM and (critical) diversity studies in an easily accessible manner. As a methodological contribution, the cases in this book offer the concise tools and methods for implementing an intersectional approach to culture.
About the author
Jasmin Mahadevan is Professor of International and Cross-Cultural Management at Pforzheim University, Germany. She is interested in studying culturally complex contexts by means of various approaches.
Henriett Primecz is an Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research interest is cross-cultural management, gender and diversity and organizational theory.
Laurence Romani is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. Her work focuses on issues of representation and interaction with the cultural Other in respectful and enriching ways.
