Overview
- Explores intercultural collaboration between Chinese and African workers
- More than 20 case studies cover relationships spanning industries and countries
- Offers research-based intercultural, culture-specific business leadership knowledge which can be used easily by students, lecturers, and organizational leaders
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in African Leadership (PSAL)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Cultural Insights into Chinese-African Management
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Intercultural Training Cases: Dealing with International Communication, Cooperation and Negotiation
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Intercultural Training Cases: Entrepreneurship, Management Styles, Language and Identity
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Intercultural Training Cases: International Human Resource Management
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Keywords
- Cross-cultural management
- intercultural interactions
- China
- Africa
- Chinese-African leadership
- positive psychology
- positive organizational behavior
- intercultural leadership
- Cross-cultural communication
- intercultural communication
- international human resource management
- IHRM
- intercultural competence
- Ubuntu
- immigrant entrepreneurship
- leadership styles
- MNCs
About this book
This book provides deep insights into intercultural collaboration among business partners, employees, managers, and entrepreneurs in Chinese-African professional interactions. It presents cultural and theoretical knowledge on Chinese and African management, leadership, and philosophy. Chinese and African scholars and professionals share their insights into how to address intercultural management challenges proactively and successfully. The cases provide insights into a wide variety of industries and offer actual scenarios studied in governmental, parastatal, and private Chinese-owned organizations in twelve African countries. This book will benefit a broad readership including scholars in employment relations and business management as well as African and Chinese collaborators in academia, government, NGOs and industry.
Reviews
“The path to success will never be the same, but one can always learn from others' experiences. This book is a must-read for anyone trying to understand Chinese businesses in Africa. Read this book and learn from one of the best.” (Jindi An Deputy Chairperson, Belt & Road Africa Think-Tank Alliance)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Claude-Hélène Mayer is a Professor in Industrial and Organisational Psychology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, an Adjunct Professor at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, and a Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her research areas are transcultural management, mental health and well-being, women in leadership, transformation of emotions, shame and psychobiography.
Christian Martin Boness is an Associated Researcher at the Department of Management, Rhodes University, South Africa.
Lynette Louw is the Raymond Ackerman Chair of Management and current Deputy Dean, Faculty of Commerce at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her areas of specialty and research include strategic management, organisational behaviour, and cross-cultural managementBibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Chinese-African Business Interactions
Book Subtitle: Growing Intercultural Competence in Organizations
Editors: Claude-Hélène Mayer, Lynette Louw, Christian Martin Boness
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in African Leadership
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25185-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25184-0Published: 08 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25187-1Published: 08 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25185-7Published: 27 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2945-6673
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 249
Topics: Cross-Cultural Management, African Business, Business Strategy/Leadership, Human Resource Management, Corporate Communication/Public Relations