Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management

Jasmin Mahadevan is Professor of International and Cross-Cultural Management at Pforzheim University, Germany. She is interested in studying culturally complex contexts by means of various approaches.Henriett Primecz is an Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest. Her research interest is cross-cultural management, gender and diversity and organizational theory. Laurence Romani is Associate Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. Her work focuses on issues of representation and interaction with the cultural Other in respectful and enriching ways.

• List of ContributorsPreface IntroductionChapter 1 The paradoxical consequences of ‘the perfect accent’! A critical approach to cross-cultural interactionsJane Kassis-Henderson and Linda CohenChapter 2 Race and privilege in CCM: A cross-cultural life-storySimon Cedrick Nunka Dikuba and Jasmin MahadevanChapter 3 From Impossibility to Visibility: An intersectional approach to LGBT Muslims and its benefits for CCMMomin Rahman and Sébastien ChehaitlyChapter 4 Corporate Christmas: Sacred or profane? The case of a Hungarian subsidiary of a Western MNCAnna Laura Hidegh and Henriett PrimeczChapter 5 Wasta in Jordanian banking: An emic approach to a culture-specific concept of social networking and its power-implicationsSa’ad Ali and David WeirChapter 6 Selling cultural difference: The position and power of cross-cultural consultantsFrançois GoxeChapter 7 Configurations of power and cultural explanations: The Case of a Chinese-Pakistani mining projectQahraman Kakar and Jasmin MahadevanChapter 8 Cultural rhetoric in onshore/offshore project work: How Swedish IT consultants talk about ‘the Indian team’ and what this means in terms of powerHelena FornstedtChapter 9 Lived ethnicity: Two ‘Turkish’ women in GermanyJasmin Mahadevan, Esra Cetinkaya and Dilara ÖzerChapter 10 Familiar strangers: Two ‘Turkish’ employees in a Danish SMEHeidrun KnorrChapter 11 The ethnicization of identityChidozie UmehChapter 12 Unequal integration: Skilled migrants’ conditional inclusion along the lines of Swedishness, class and ethnicityElin Hunger, Miguel Morillas, Laurence Romani and Mohammed MohsenChapter 13 Gender initiatives between support and denial: A cross-cultural study of two automotive companies in Germany and FranceMounia Utzeri, Beáta Nagy and Iuliana Ancuţa IlieChapter 14 Global North and Global South: Frameworks of power in an international development projectHamid ForoughiChapter 15 Exploring outsider/insider dynamics and intersectionalities: Perspectives and reflections from management researchers in sub-Saharan AfricaEmanuela Girei and Loice NatukundaChapter 16 How and why an academic expert legitimatized social marginalization: The case of making and shaping a corporate language policyAnders KlitmøllerIndex

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