Romanian Cultural Background and its Relevance for Cross-Cultural Management – A Comment

Cross Cultural Management

Depression, somatization, and the "new cross-cultural psychiatry". A comment.

Contrary to Smger’s contentlon that the features of depressive dtsorders do not exhlblt slgmficant cross-cultural differences the author uses material from field research m Tatwan and data from recent anthropologlcal and chrucal mvesttgatlons to support the opposite view that such differences extst and are a function of the cultural shaping of normattve and devtant behavior Somatlzatlon amongst...

Cross-Cultural Challenges for Information Resources Management

Western organizations have led the globalization of business operations, especially in the deployment of multi-domestic strategy. The decentralized organizational control and customized operations support the fast penetration of huge global markets. Western management theory considers information the lifeblood of organization. The sharing of information lubricates the interlocking divisions wit...

Organizations and Management in Cross-cultural Context

Cultural liminality and hybridity: the Romanian "transition.".

In Tarrying with the Negative, Slavoj Zizek discusses the fascinating image of the Romanian flag with its national emblem cut out as a most "salient index of the 'open' character of a historical situation in its becoming," which is characteristic of "that intermediate phase when the former Master-Signifier, although it has already lost the hegemonical power, has not yet been replaced by the new...