David C. Thomas is the Beedie Professor of International Management at Simon Fraser University. He is the author or coauthor of ten books, including the award - winning Cross - Cultural Management.

Section I. Management and Culture
Reading 1.1 Global Managers: Developing a Mindset for Global Competitiveness - Ben L. Kedia and Ananda Mukherji
Reading 1.2 Cultural Constraints in Management Theories - Geert Hofstede
Reading 1.3 Whatever Happened to Masculinity and Femininity? - Geert Hofstede
Reading 1.4 Building Competitive Advantage from Ubuntu: Management Lessons from South Africa. - Mzamo P. Mangaliso
Reading 1.5 The Japanese Manager¿s Traumatic Entry into the United States: Understanding the American-Japanese Cultural Divide - Richard G. Linowes
Reading 1.6 Beyond Sophisticated Stereotyping: Cultural Sensemaking in Context - Joyce S. Osland and Allan Bird
Case 1.1 Merck & Company, Inc.: Having the Vision to Succeed - Stephanie Weiss and David Bollier
Case 1.2 Unocal and the Yadana Gas Pipeline Project - Anne T. Lawrence and Howard Tolley Jr.
Case 1.3 Common Bond Values at the New Zealand Office of AT&T - Deborah Shepherd
Case 1.4 The Road to Hell - Gareth Evans
Case 1.5 Café Mam and ISMAM - Ronald Nigh, Ann D. Walsh, and Dahinda Meda
Case 1.6 Gold Star Properties: Financial Crisis - Joseph J. DiStefano
Case 1.7 Chiba International, Inc. - Nina Hatvany and Vladimir Pucik
Case 1.8 Footwear International - R. William Blake
Section II. Roles of the International Manager
Reading 2.1 Values in Tension: Ethics away from Home - Thomas Donaldson
Reading 2.2 When Ethics Collide: Managing Conflicts across Cultures - Paul F. Buller, John J. Kohls, and Kenneth S. Anderson
Reading 2.3 Key Concepts: Underlying Structures of Culture - Edward T. Hall and Mildred Reed Hall
Reading 2.4 Negotiating with the Chinese: A Socio-Cultural Analysis - Pervez Ghauri and Tony Fang
Reading 2.5 Understanding the Bear: A Portrait of Russian Business Leaders - Sheila M. Puffer
Reading 2.6 Contrasts in Culture: Russian and Western Perspectives on
Organizational Change
Reading 2.6 Contrasts in Culture: Russian and Western Perspectives on Organizational Change - Snejina Michailova
Case 2.1 Nike¿s Dispute with the University of Oregon - Rebecca J. Morris and Anne T. Lawrence
Case 2.2 How Much Sleaze is Too Much? - Asbjorn Osland
Case 2.3 Moto: Coming to America - Patricia Gercik
Case 2.4 Negotiating across the Pacific - Xiaohua Lin and Jian Guan
Case 2.5 Consolidated Engineering Co. Goes to China - Travis Maples and Penelope B. Prime
Case 2.6 Kiwi Samurai: The Secure Fit Industries in Japan - David C. Thomas
Case 2.7 Rus Wane Equipment: Joint Venture in Russia (A) and (B) - Stanislav V. Shekshnia and Sheila M. Puffer
Section III. International Management Challenges
Reading 3.1 Virtual Teams: Technology and the Workplace of the Future - Anthony M. Townsend, Samuel M. DeMarie, and Anthony R. Hendrickson
Reading 3.2 Minding Your Metaphors: Applying the Concept of Teamwork Metaphors to the Management of Teams in Multicultural Contexts - Cristina B. Gibson and Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn
Reading 3.3 End Games in International Alliances - Manuel G. Serapio Jr. and Wayne F. Cascio
Reading 3.4 Same Bed, Different Dreams: Working Relationships in Sino-American Joint Ventures - James P. Walsh, ErPing Wang, and Katherine R. Xin
Reading 3.5 The Contemporary International Assignment: A Look at the Options - Glenn M. McEvoy and Barbara Parker
Reading 3.6 Expatriate Assignments Versus Overseas Experience: Contrasting Models of International Human Resource Development - Kerr Inkson, Michael B. Arthur, Judith Pringle, and Sean Barry
Case 3.1 Team Spirit at Sino-American Shanghai Squibb (SASS) - Anne Marie Francesco
Case 3.2 Johannes van den Bosch Sends an Email; Johannes van den Bosch Receives a Reply. - Joseph J. DiStefano
Case 3.3 Mass Merger: The Case of AON Singapore - Anne Marie Francesco
Case 3.4 The Role of the Area Manager - Asbjorn Osland
Case 3.5 Catskill Roads - J. Bonner Ritchie and Alan Hawkins
Case 3.6 Andreas Weber¿s Reward for Success in an Expatriate Assignment - a Return to an Uncertain Future - Günter K. Stahl and Mark E. Mendenhall