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The Handbook of International Financial Terms
by Peter Moles and Nicholas Terry
1997 Oxford University Press
This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date A to Z reference of over 14,000 financial terms. A clear explanation of the use of terms and instruments in different markets and different countries is provided as well as a detailed list of abbreviations, acronyms and a full list of international currencies and currency codes.

Research Traditions in Marketing 

1994 

Reviews the past twenty years of research in marketing by considering the different research steams together to understand evaluate and critique those various streams and to explore potential overlaps and divergence likely to emerge in the future. In addition, attention has been paid to represent balance of European and North American scholarship in both quantitative and qualitative research traditions.

Cultural Complexity In Organizations

Sonja A. Sackmann Editor

Sage Publications, 1997

Using empirical data based on innovative and multi-method research approaches, this book goes beyond description to make recommendations on how to better deal with complexity in organizations.

Especially useful for students and professionals in organization studies.

 

Marketing Across Cultures 

Jean-Claude Usunier 
1996 Prentice Hall Europe 
The cultural variable relating to national culture has been somewhat neglected in the theory and practice of international trade. This book seeks to redress this gap by adopting a cultural approach to international marketing.  There are two dimensions to this approach: one, a cross-cultural view, comparing national marketing systems; the other, an intercultural view, centring on the interaction between people of different cultures. Thus it provides readers with a framework for developing a commerce-based cultural awareness and is a training tool for those wishing to improve their abilities in the area of international marketing. 

 

Managing Cultural Differences: Effective Strategy and Execution Across Cultures in Global Corporate Alliances

by Piero Morosini

1998 Elsevier Science Ltd.

Breakthrough findings and approaches on how to successfully execute global corporate alliances across cultural differences. Based on an innovative 5-year research project at The Wharton School, combining academic rigor and the pragmatic insight from recognized industry leaders around the world.

 

Managing Cultural Differences

Philip R. Harris and Robert T. Moran
1997 Gulf Publishing Company
This Instructor's Guide is divided into three units: Cultural Influences on Global Management; Cultural Impacts on Global Business; and Culture Specifics for Business/Service Abroad. Although not every country can be covered, a general cultural profile was provided for cultural regions. In addition, for each region, two nations were selected as representative examples. A reference list is included at the end of each chapter for further reading.

 

Strategic Innovation

An International Casebook on Strategic Management

Edited by Charles Baden-Fuller and Martyn Pitt

Routledge 1996

The creative aspect of strategy is the central focus of this book. Through an international selection of case studies, the editors show how creativity fits into the overall context of the managerÆs role in the firm and the firm within its industry.

 

International Marketing Strategy:  Contemporary Readings

By Isobel Doole and Robin Lowe

International Thomson Business Press, 1997

This reader collects key articles in international marketing, building on a three part framework of market analysis, strategy development and implementation issues. It explores in depth the essential elements of marketing in the international context with detailed examples of strategies and techniques.

 

Global Business Strategy

By Robin John, Grazia Ietto-Gillies, Howard Cox and Nigel Grimwade

International Thomson Business Press, 1997

Offering comprehensive coverage of theoretical issues, together with a wide range of applied material and mini-case studies, this text takes a multidisciplinary approach to analyze how international firms operate in the changing global environment.

  

National Culture and International Management in East Asia

Edited by Herbert J. Davis and William D. Schulte Jr.

International Thomson Business Press, 1997

This collection brings together contributions from eminent scholars in the field to investigate the role of national culture on economic progress and international management success in East Asia. Issues explored include the role of East Asia in the global economy, cross-national management research methods and the relationship between national culture and the facets of international management.

Business France
by Peggy Kenna and Sondra Lacy 
NTC Publishing 1996 
Business France is an invaluable tool for thousands of entrepreneurs, businesspeople, corporate executives, technicians, and salespeople seeking to develoop lasting business relationships in France 

The French Businessmate
The Spanish Businessmate
The German Businessmate
Authors: Varioius 
NTC Publishing, 1993, 1995, 1986 respectively 
These books are designed to assist businesspeople on their trips to French speaking countries in W. Europe, Latin America, Mexico and Spain, and Germany. These books are primarily dictionaries and phrase books.
 

Business and Management In Russia

Sheila M. Puffer and Associates

Edward Elgar, 1996
Intended for students, scholars and managers, this book provides in-depth analyses of Russian culture and history as they affect managers and survey results on current managerial attitudes and practice. While focusing on managers and enterprises, the volume also addresses macroeconomic, political, legal and social issues as a context for understanding managerial behavior.

 

Corporate Strategies in the Pacific Rim: Global Versus Regional Trends

Edited by Denis Fred Simon

Routledge, 1995

Following a major international conference held in Japan, in 1992, on the impact of globalization and regionalization on corporate strategy and structure among Pacific Rim firms, this volume brings together the most important papers presented.

 

Imitation to Innovation:  The Dynamics of Korea's Technological Learning 

Linsu Kim 
Harvard Business School Press 1997 
This is the story of Korea's rapid rise from a subsistence agriculture economy to a high-tech powerhouse, with lessons for other newly industrializing countries--and even established competitors--that want to follow Korea's lead.  Through his examination of more than two hundred Korean companies, Kim explores the dynamics of their technological learning, maintaining that in spite of the favorable impact of public policy and the cultural environment, private industry made the country's ambitious development goals a realty . 

Managing across cultures: Issues and Perspectives

Pat Joynt and Malcolm Warner

International Thomson Business Press 1996

This is an essential guide for international executives, teachers, and students of international business and management. . It looks at how managers manage across different cultures and how they cope with globalization in practice. It brings together a rich selection of contributions from some of the prominent scholars in cross-cultural and comparative management.

 

Trends in International Business:  Critical perspectives

Michael R. Czinkota and Masaaki Kotabe

Blackwell Business, 1998

The text presents a leading hedge analysis of the central components of international business strategy and their effects. Readers gain valuable exposure to the macroshifts which are redefining the parameters of business, as well insights into the strategies which firms can adopt to respond to these changes.

 

Management Across Cultures: Insights from fiction and practice

Sheila M. Puffer
Blackwell Business, 1996
Dr. Puffer uses facts and fiction to communicate lessons in global management. The fiction selections speak from the heart and mind about problems individuals and families confront while working and living outside their home country. The managerial writings provide real-life examples and practical advice for dealing with these issues.

Culture Clash Managing in a Multicultural World
H. Ned Seelye and Alan Seelye-James 
NTC Publishing Group, 1996 
This book focuses on the practical problems commonly encountered in international consulting and management, but anyone in any role in multicultural space will benefit from reading it.

International Business and Multinational Enterprise 

Robock 

1989 

 

Doing Business Internationally: The Resource Book to Business and Social Etiquette

Training Management Corporation

1997 Princeton Training Press

As more organizations internationalize, cutting-edge information on business practices around the world becomes vital to achieving professional success. Cross-cultural awareness and understanding are no longer just beneficial, they are necessary. In concise, three to six page sections, this book covers the cultural customs and business protocol of over eighty-five countries around the world. Topics include an historical overview, introductions, social tips and conventions, customary business practices, business entertaining, dining out, and public customs.

 

Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: How to Do Business in Sixty Countries 

by Terri Morrison, George A. Borden and Wayne A. Conaway 

1994, 440 pages 

How people from various cultures perceive information and negotiate business deals. This book details protocols and behavior styles and business practices in sixty different countries.

 

International Business History 

Dennis McCarthy 

1993 

How international business appeared and developed on each continent from the Renaissance to the contemporary globalization of business.

  

The Cross Cultural Adaptability Inventory 

by Colleen Kelley and Judith Meyers 

Preview package-CCAI Manual, Self Assessments, Action Planning Guide Passport Set-Cultural Passport and Facilitators Guide 

 

Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning 

Edited by H. Ned Seelye 

1996, 248 pages 

This book contains thirty-two exercises and activities designed to augment the resources and expand the repertoire of trainers and educators concerned with intercultural learning. They focus especially on the development of cultural awareness and cross-cultural sensitivity and include simulations, case studies, role plays, critical incidents and individual and group exercises.

 

Developing Intercultural Awareness 

A Cross-Cultural Training Handbook 

by L. Robert Kohls and John M. Knight 

1994, 158 pages 

The body of the book, presented in twenty one "Resource" sections is given over the training materials themselves, including simulation games, case studies and ice-breaking values, communication and other exercises.

 

The 1997-1998 Complete set of Culturgrams

1997 Brigham Young University

A Culturgram provides clear, concise information about the daily lives of the people in given nation.  Each four-page Culturgram contains a brief discussion of a nation's background, society, and its people's customs, courtesies, and lifestyles.  Volume I contains 75 Culturgrams on the Americas and Europe.  Volume II contains 90 Culturgrams on Africa, Asia and Oceana.

Kennedy Center Publications

 

Teaching Culture 

by H. Ned Seelye 

1993, 336 pages 

This handbook provides practical strategies for combining language and culture study. Seelye outlines several goals for cultural instruction and helps the teacher create specific learning activities for reaching these goals.

 

Do's and Taboos Around the World 

Edited by Roger E. Axtell 
The Parker Pen Company, 1993 

The purpose of this book is to create an awareness of, or sensitivity to, 

behavior when one is traveling outside the U.S. or dealing in this country with a visitor from overseas. 

 

Teaching About Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity

Editor Theodore M. Singelis 
Sage Publications, 1998

Teaching About Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity is a book of easy-to-use classroom and training exercises that are intended for use in teaching about culture, ethnicity and diversity. The contributors offer tools for teachers and trainers who strive to increase understanding of and communication between ethnic and racial groups.

Intercultural Competence Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures
Myron W. Lustig and Jolene Koester 
Harpers Collins 1996 
This book focuses on the practical reasons for understanding people from different cultures, helping readers to develop competence in intercultural communication. 

Cross Cultural Dialogues
Craig Storti 
1994 Intercultural Press 
Cross-Cultural Dialogues is a collection of brief conversations between an American and someone from another country and culture.  Each dialogue contains at least one breach of cultural norms, which the reader is challenged to figure out.  And a challenge it is:  the exchanges are so brief and innocuous that even the wariest among us is caught off guard by the dialogue's hidden subtleties. 

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business 

by Fons Trompenaars 

1994 

 

Cross-Cultural Business Behavior

Richard R. Gesteland
Copenhagen Business School Press 1996
Despite all we hear about the "borderless world", differing business customs and practices in fact continue to be invisible barriers to global trade. Cross-Cultural Business Behavior shows the business executives how to overcome these unseen obstacles to international success.

 

Directories and Dictionaries

 

Directory of International Internships

American businesses, government and educational institutions have taken steps to shape an international future. They will need women and men possessing qualifications that make them internationalists. This "Directory of International Internships " provides listings of Educational institutions, government agencies and private organizations offering international internships along with some help to identify the quality internships.

 

Directory of America's Corporate Families and International Affiliates-1997, Volume III

Published by Dun and Bradstreet

This directory lists:

US multinational parent companies and their foreign subsidiaries

US subsidiaries of foreign ultimate parents

US/foreign multinational family members by geographic area or industry

 

Handbook for Multilingual Business Writing 

NTC Publishing, 1994 
This book is intended for anyone who has to produce or understand commercial correspondence in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. 

 

International Encyclopedia of Business and Management

Edited by Malcolm Warner

International Thomson Press, 1997

The Pocket International Encyclopedia of Business and Management provides a handy introduction to a full range of business and management techniques, disciplines and concepts. Rather than simple short definitions, the Encyclopedia provides full briefings on the issues surrounding a topic so that the reader can gain understanding of the concepts quickly and comprehensively.

 

Methods and Data Analysis for Cross Cultural Research 

by Fons van de Vijver 

"Cross Cultural Psychology," Volume 1 

1997 (February) 192 pages

The globalization of markets and increased cross-cultural communications have made cross-cultural research a necessity in the behavior and social sciences. This guide will provide graduate students and professionals with up-to-date overview of the most important tools and cross-cultural research and techniques.