O.K., smart people, help me out here. If you have time to contribute your expertise, if I write a book about this I�ll include you in a GLOBE-like list of hundreds of contributors. I�m a contingency theorist at heart, and am planning to create an International Business Management programme consisting of a 13-week Master of Business research degree 3-semester-hour course, and a 6-week, 3 hours/week MBA module. The thrust of the instruction will be �tools, not rules�. As a start:
Week 1 maybe two weeks on this topic: Business and Culture
� Hofstede, Geert (1994) The Business of International Business is Culture. International Business Review, 3(1):1-14.
� Schwartz, S.H., & Ros, M. (1995) Values in the West: A theoretical and empirical challenge to the Individualism-Collectivism cultural dimension. World Psychology, 1: 99-122. � Or perhaps another Schwartz article
� Trompenaars summary
� The GLOBE study summaries
Week 2: The Business Environment
(I had a student, not mine, come to me asking why the Upsala Model of FDI didn't work in China.)
�Blind spots in economic reasoning�, Geert Hofstede, Faculty seminar CentER, 9 September 2004
If they�d only had a computer:
Marie-�sprit L�on Walras, general equilibrium theory.
Joseph A. Schumpeter, socioligical understanding and economic theories
Week 3-4: The Expatriate
- The expat's view
= Peter Drucker, HBR, "Managing Yourself"
- The locals' view
�More�?
"Who dare to teach must never cease to learn."-John Cotton Dana
Romie F. Littrell, PhD, An f�na� fi�in
Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology
Auckland 1020, New Zealand
http://www.romielittrellpubs.homestead.com/
http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/
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