Outnation : A Search for the Soul of Japan
Jonathan Rauch / Hardcover /
Published 1992
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Synopsis:
Anyone interested in business in Japan--whether to compete, cooperate, emulate, or
simply understand--will profit from this insightful and illuminating look at Japan and the
Japanese. Photographs by Joel Sackett and a foreward by James Fallows provide a rich
context to Rauch's observations.
Passport China : Your Pocket Guide to Chinese Business, Customs
& Etiquette (Passport to the World)
Jenny Li / Paperback / Published
1996
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The publisher, O'Reilly and Associates:
Success in international business is not just about your product and service, or
about terms and delivery schedules. Success is about people, traditions and relationships.
Passport to the World books are comprehensive guides to understanding a country's people,
culture, etiquette and communication styles. Passport China will help you: Avoid cultural
faux pas Learn about China's values and beliefs Understand the reasons behind the actions
Develop an effective negotiating style Don't leave without your passport!
Passport Hong Kong : Your Pocket Guide to Hong Kong Business,
Customs & Etiquette (Passport to the World)
Andrew Grzeskowiak / Paperback /
Published 1996
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Passport India : Your Pocket Guide to Indian Business, Customs
& Etiquette (Passport to the World)
Manoj Joshi / Paperback /
Published 1997
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Passport Japan : Your Pocket Guide to Japanese Business, Customs
& Etiquette ('Pasport to the World)
Dean Engel, et al / Paperback /
Published 1996
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Passport Mexico : Your Pocket Guide to Mexican Business, Customs
& Etiquette (Passport to the World)
Randy Malat / Paperback /
Published 1996
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Passport Philippines : Your Pocket Guide to Filipino Business,
Customs & Etiquette (Passport to the World)
Luis H. Francia / Paperback /
Published 1997
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Passport Thailand : Your Pocket Guide to Thai Business, Customs
& Etiquette ('Passport to the World)
Naomi Wise / Paperback /
Published 1997
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Passport Vietnam : Your Pocket Guide to Vietnamese Business,
Customs & Etiquette ('Passport to the World)
Jeffrey E. Curry, et al /
Paperback / Published 1997
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Pavilions of Plenty : Exhibiting American Culture Abroad in the
1950s
Robert H. Haddow / Hardcover
/ Published 1997, 240 pages
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Redefining Corporate Soul : Linking Purpose & People
Allan J. Cox, et al /
Hardcover / Published 1996
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Synopsis:
What separates a company of wage slaves from the corporation filled with motivated,
enthusiastic employees? This thoughtful, high-concept book opens new pathways that help
the reader discover corporate purpose, instill team values, and maximize opportunities
from information technology--all creating organizational advantage.
Riding the Waves of Culture : Understanding Diversity in Global
Business
Alfons Trompenaars, Fons Trompenaars / Hardcover / Published 1994
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Card catalog description
In today's global business community, there is no single best approach to management:
each culture has its own way of building relationships, motivating employees, negotiating,
and working. Those who venture into unfamiliar cultures without a clear understanding of
these differences will have little success in communicating, let alone furthering, their
organization's interests abroad. Fons Trompenaars examines, compares, and contrasts
various global cultures, revealing how their intrinsic values and beliefs typically impact
business interactions and influence business behavior. This enlightening book also shows
how and why the so-called universal management approaches - TQM, employee involvement, and
others - can work well in one culture ... and fail miserably in another.
Selling Free Enterprise : The Business Assault on Labor and
Liberalism, 1945-60 (The History of Communication)
Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf /
Paperback / Published 1995
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The Socially Responsible Guide to Smart Investing : Improve Your Protofolio As
You Improve the Environment
Samuel Case / Hardcover / Published 1996
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Synopsis:
Case believes that one's investment policy should be based on the same beliefs with
which one conducts the rest of his/her life. No more investing strictly with an eye on
profit, the other closed to the environmental and/or human life travesties that such
investments may be furthering. This guide covers everything from basic environmental
dangers to the companies whose dealings are socially responsible.
Strategies for Cultural Change
Paul Bate / Hardcover /
Published 1994, 308 pages
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Book News, Inc., 10/31/96:
Presents a framework for understanding conceptual and practical matters relating to
business culture and cultural change, taking a comprehensive approach to the design and
implementation of a cultural change program. Includes examples from industry and the
public sector. For management students studying strategy, change management, and
organizational behavior, and for management and board members in any organization involved
in cultural change.
Team Toyota : Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant
in Kentucky (Suny Series in the Sociology of Work)
Terry L. Besser / Paperback /
Published 1996, 199 pages
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Hardcover /
Published 1997
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Book News, Inc., 01/18/38:
Beser (sociology, Iowa State U.) reports on his five-year study of a Toyota assembly
plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, one of the first accounts of Japanese organizations that
incorporates the perspectives of both managers and workers. He draws on interviews,
company publications, newspaper accounts, interaction with employees, and attendance at
company events. He focuses on the team concept which is used by the company to penetrate
the small work group and reinforce loyalty to the company's goals and values.
The Traffic in Culture : Refiguring Art and Anthropology
George E. Marcus, Fred R. Myers (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1995
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Unbridled Power : Inside the Secret Culture of the IRS
Shelley L. Davis / Hardcover
/ Published 1997, 284 pages
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Audio Cassette
/ Published 1997
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Synopsis:
The Internal Revenue Service is one of the most powerful government agencies in the
United States. Wielding more power than the FBI or CIA, the IRS can search and seize
property without a warrant, launch investigations of people based on their beliefs, and
audit citizens without cause. Written by the first official historian of the IRS,
Unbridled Power rips aside the veil of secrecy to reveal the nation's most feared agency.
The Value of Culture : On the Relationship Between Economics and
the Arts
Arjo Klamer (Editor) / Paperback
/ Published 1997
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Working for a Japanese Company : Insights into the Multicultural
Workplace
Robert M. March / Hardcover /
Published 1992, 247 pages
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Working With Americans : A Practical Guide for Asians on How to
Succeed With U.S. Managers
Joel Wallach, Gale Metcalf /
Paperback / Published 1995
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Wrapping Culture : Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan
and Other Societies (Oxford Studies in the Anthropology
of Cultural Forms)
Joy Hendry / Hardcover /
Published 1993
Our Price: $49.95
Card catalog description
Wrapping Culture is concerned with problems of intercultural communication and the
possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting
with an examination of gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations are
often influenced by cultural factors which may blind us to an appreciation of underlying
intent. She then extends this approach to the study of polite language as the wrapping of
thoughts and intentions, garments as body wrappings, constructions and gardens as wrapping
of space, and even to the ways in which people may be wrapped in seating arrangements, or
meetings and drinking customs may be constrained by temporal versions of wrapping.
