For me, cross-cultural management has a context. Understanding this context is important. The context is an increasingly globalised world that is dynamic. It is characterised
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I wish I’d written this book: Mahadevan’s ’A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Cross-Cultural Management’
Have you ever read a book and thought ‘I wish I’d written that’. Well, Jasmin Mahadevan’s book A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap
What do cross-cultural management scholars think about race?
The opening couple of sentences of the blurb to a very (in)famous book of the 1970s, Hans Eysenck’s Race, Intelligence and Education reads ‘Are negroes
Why is the cross-cultural management of food security so important?
Food security is a big issue in the world today. It is second on the list of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, after ending
Indigenous Entrepreneurship
I knew there was something wrong when the then director of the Kenya Institute of Management co-published an article claiming that ‘African’ culture was not
Learn From Africa: Leadership
The myth that ‘African’ leadership is despotic is disabused by Ayittey. He asserts that this was a colonial invention, stating: ‘Clearly, such “terrible” African rulers must
