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Cross-Cultural Management is a new five-volume collection in the
Routledge Major Works series, Critical Perspectives on Business and
Management. It meets the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and
comprehensive reference work synthesizing the increasingly diverse
cross-cultural management literature. Indeed, the sheer scale of
the growth in related research output?and the breadth of the
field?makes this collection especially timely and welcome.
Cross-Cultural Management provides the most comprehensive
collection of classic and contemporary contributions on the subject
to date. It facilitates ready access to the most influential and
important works across the field, combining the theory and
application in the process to encourage a broader appreciation of
the discipline and the mutual influences within it.
Volume I is dedicated to the conceptual antecedents of
cross-cultural management, covering all the major approaches and
frameworks along with several noted critiques. Volumes II, III, and
IVexamine how national culture influences management practice;
material assembled here includes essential contributions on
adaptation and assimilation, communication, negotiation, and
cross-national teams. Volume V, meanwhile, gathers the best work on
methodological considerations.
Each volume comprises foundational, cutting-edge, and less
accessible research carefully selected and collated by the editors,
two leading scholars in the field, as well as newly written
introductions. The introductions are designed not just to place the
collected material in its historical and intellectual context, but
also to explain the relationships between the gathered works and to
identify additional and promising areas of research. Together, the
five volumes provide an essential one-stop resource for academics,
students, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand a
critical aspect of contemporary business management within an
increasingly global economy.
This is the first biography of Boy Browning, whose name is
inextricably linked with the creation and employment of Britains
airborne forces in the Second World War. Commissioned into the
Grenadier Guards, Browning served on the Western Front, earning a
DSO during the Battle of Cambrai. As Adjutant at Sandhurst, he
began the tradition of riding a horse up the steps at the end of
the commissioning parade. Browning represented England as a hurdler
and Great Britain at the 1928 Winter Olympics. In 1932 Browning
married Daphne du Maurier, who was ten years younger and became one
of the 20th centurys most enduring and popular novelists with
titles such as Jamaica Inn and Rebecca. Browning commanded two
brigades before being appointed to command 1 Airborne Division in
1941, later acting as Eisenhowers advisor on airborne warfare in
the Mediterranean. In 1944 he commanded 1st Airborne Corps, which
he took to Holland for Operation MARKET GARDEN that September.
Allegedly coining the phrase a bridge too far, he has received much
of the blame for the operations failure. In late 1944, Browning
became Chief of Staff to Mountbatten. In 1948 he became Comptroller
and Treasurer to Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip and then
Treasurer to the latter following the Queens accession. He was a
close adviser to the Royal couple who respected his judgment. By
this time Boy and Daphne lived separate lives with Boy working at
the Palace in London and Daphne reluctant to leave her beloved
Cornwall although the marriage remained intact. Questions exist as
to Daphnes sexuality and Boy had a succession of discrete
mistresses. After a nervous breakdown probably due to marriage
problems, he resigned in 1959 and retired to Cornwall. Browning
died in March 1965.
Ralph Cochrane was born in 1895 into a distinguished naval family.
After joining the Royal Navy, he volunteered in 1915 to serve with
the RNAS in airships and was an early winner of the Air Force
Cross. In 1918 he transferred to the fledgling RAF and learnt to
fly, serving in Iraq as a flight commander under 'Bomber' Harris.
His inter-war career saw him as a squadron commander in Aden before
he became the first Chief of Air Staff of the Royal New Zealand Air
Force. During the Second World War he served mainly in Bomber
Command and commanded 5 Group from early 1943\. He formed 617
Squadron and was instrumental in planning the legendary Dambuster
Raid, the most spectacular of the War, as well as the sinking of
the battleship Tirpitz. An inspirational leader, he trained 5 Group
in low level target marking skills. Post war Cochrane held a string
of senior appointments commanding Transport Command, Flying
Training Command and finally as Vice Chief of Air Staff, retiring
in 1952\. He died in 1977.
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