Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Laurence Romani Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 292 ISBN: 9783838372938
Описание
This work offers three principal contributions to cross-cultural management research. First, it underscores the diversity of this stream, which is not only multi-disciplinary but also multi-paradigmatic (positivist, interpretive, critical and post-modern). Second, it explains how researchers can actively respect and fruitfully engage with this paradigm diversity. This is done with "interplay", a multi-paradigm research strategy. The challenges often associated with multi-paradigm studies are presented and systematically addressed,the method interplay is clearly introduced and detailed in order to make it accessible. Third, by conducting interplay on the analyses of Swedish-Japanese work interactions, contributions of this method are made explicit. They address the studied interactions, but also extant research on cross-cultural management. Contributions from interplay shed new lights on reported leadership preferences and cultural dimensions, on the importance of the development of...
