Cambridge Handbook of Culture Organizations and Work

It is now widely recognized that countries around the world are becoming increasingly interconnected and that both public and private organizations are of necessity becoming increasingly global. As political legal and economic barriers recede in this environment cultural barriers emerge as a principal challenge to organizational survival and success. It is not yet clear whether these global realities will cause cultures to converge harmonize and seek common ground or to retrench resist and accentuate their differences. In either case it is of paramount importance for both managers and organizational scholars to understand the cultural crosscurrents underlying these changes. With contributions from an international team of scholars this book reviews analyzes and integrates available theory and research to give the best information possible concerning the role of culture and cultural differences in organizational dynamics.