Global Collaboration: Intercultural Experiences and Learning

MARY YOKO BRANNEN Visiting Full Professor of Strategy at the European Institute of Business Administration PHILIPPE D'IRIBARNE Managing Director of Gestion et Socit (Management and Society), at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) in Paris, France MARION FESTING Professor of Human Resource Management and Intercultural Leadership, and European Associate Dean of Researchat ESCP Europe, Berlin, Germany MARTHA MAZNEVSKI Professor of Organizational Behavior and International Management and Director of the MBA Program at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland UFFE STERGRD Professor of European and Danish History at the Department for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark DAVID C. THOMAS Professor of International Management and Director of the Centre for Global Workforce Strategy at Simon Fraser University, Canada

Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction and Overview; M.C.Gertsen , A.M.Sderberg & M.Zlner PART I: BACKGROUNDS State of the Art: Cross-cultural Management and Global Collaboration; D. C.Thomas Danish National Identity: An Historical Account; U.stergrd PART II: INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS AND CULTURAL LEARNING State of the Art: International Human Resource Management and Cultural Learning; M.Festing Expatriation: Stories of Intercultural Face-work; M.C.Gertsen & A.M.Sderberg Knowledge Exchange and Intercultural Learning through Inpatriation: Some Chinese Experiences; M.C.Gertsen & A.M.Sderberg Short-term International Assignments: A Means of Developing Cultural Sensitivity and Building Networks in a Global Company?; A.M.Sderberg & M.Zlner PART III: WHEN CORPORATE CULTURES AND PRACTICES TRAVEL Cultural Translation of Corporate Values; P.d'Iribarne Reception and Recontextualization of Corporate Values in Subsidiaries; M.C.Gertsen & M.Zlner Winning Behaviours in East andWest: Recontextualizing a Strategic Concept Within a Global Organization; M.C.Gertsen & A.M.Sderberg Managing 'in between': Dilemmas of Expatriate Managers; M.Zlner PART IV: DIFFERENT FORMS OF COLLABORATION ACROSS BORDERS State of the Art: Studying Multicultural Teams; M.Maznevski Learning from Difference: Born Global SMEs and Their Approaches to Intercultural Collaboration in Asia; M.C.Gertsen Global Teams: Exploring the Success of a Shared Services Centre in Bangalore; M.C.Gertsen & M.Zlner Virtual Communication and Collaboration in Global Research and Development Teams: A Case Study of an Indian R&D Hub; A.M.Sderberg Final Perspectives; M.C.Gertsen , A.M.Sderberg & M.Zlner Afterword; M.Y.Brannen Appendix