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What is Cultural Management

Handbook of Research on Global Business Opportunities
Cultural management includes the planning, processing, monitoring, and controlling of management functions in an international and cross-cultural context. Cultural management addresses the minimization of cultural conflicts for an increased organizational efficiency considering manifestations of corporate and country culture.
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Cultural Management for Multinational Enterprises
Christian Zuber (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) and Hans-Christian Pfohl (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6551-4.ch004
Abstract
Due to the dynamics in international business, it has become increasingly complex for the Multinational Enterprise (MNE) to find a balance between worldwide standardisation of operational processes and the usage of local advantages. The foreign subsidiary's managers and employees are stuck in the middle of environmental requirements, defined by the parent company on the one hand and the local social environment on the other hand. To ensure organizational efficiency in foreign subsidiaries, the rising conflict between corporate and country cultural characteristics can be solved through active cultural management. This chapter describes fundamentals of culture on corporate and country level and deduces a framework for cultural management. Furthermore, strategies are presented to close the gap between a subsidiary's external requirements and the internal implementation.
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