Partnering for Organizational Performance

Elizabeth K. Briody is cultural anthropologist and Technical Fellow at General Motors R&D in Warren, Michigan. Robert T. Trotter II is a Regent's Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ and the co-author of Ethnographer's Toolkit, Volume 4.

• Chapter 1 Framing the Partnership Experience Chapter 2 The Cultural Processes of Partnership Chapter 3 A "Dreamcatcher" Design for Partnerships Chapter 4 Cultural Training Parthnerships: Who has the power? Chapter 5 Coordinated Autonomy? Culture in Emergency Response Partnering Chapter 6 Practical Strategies for Partnership: An Inside-Out View Chapter 7 An Educational Partnership for Immediate Impact Chapter 8 Effectiveness Through Partnerships: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Partnerships to Influence Product Development Chapter 9 The Challange of partnerships in Complex Cultural Environments Chapter 10 The Making of A Modern Kingdom: Transnational Parthnerships in Saudi Arabia Chapter 11 Learning From the Partnership Experience

Assembling and working with diverse teams is an important challenge in every workplace. This collection of careful studies, with its special attention to culture, helps us to understand what works in cross-national industrial partnerships, and why. This is a work of great significance for managers and social scientists alike. Partnering for Organizational Performance decants the very nature of our global society. -- Teresa A. Sullivan, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and professor of sociology at University of Michigan Partnering for Organizational Performance is a very valuable and much-needed addition to the literature on partnerships in a globalizing world where partnerships are not only desirable, but necessary. The authors perceptively describe and analyze eight in-depth case studies using anthropological and business-focused concepts, as well as providing interdisciplinary insights. This is a highly readable text that employs imaginative frames of reference for each case study and concludes with a very useful section on 'lessons learned.' -- Martin J. Gannon, professor of strategy and international management at California State University, San Marcos, and author of Understanding Globa