Location Room 10.28, Tower building, 10 Pulteney Street

Telephone 8313 2017

Email peter.sandiford@adelaide.edu.au

Course website www.myuni.adelaide.edu.au


Tutorial details will be posted on myuni.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1	Critically analyse the drivers and consequences (political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, legal and ecological) of globalization, its impact on specific regions and the emerging concerns about its influences on countries around the world.
2	Understand and appreciate the need for ethics and social responsibility in international management, and the growing pressures on firms to act in an ethically and socially responsible manner in their global business operations
3	Compare different theoretical approaches to the concept of culture (at national, regional and organisational levels) and implications of these differences for international and cross-cultural managers
4	Apply theories of culture and management to address the challenges of managing individuals, groups and organisations in an increasingly diverse global context
5	Integrate and apply the basic elements of international strategic management, including the pressures and cost/benefits of strategies that emphasize global integration versus local adaptation; evaluate the specialized strategies required for emerging economies and for international new ventures
6	Compare and evaluate practices related to the management, motivation and leading of employees in an international and cross-cultural context

Course Text:

Steer, RM., Nardon, L., Sanchez-Runde, CJ., Samaratunge, R., Ananthram, S., Fan, D. & Lu, Y. (2017) Management Across Cultures: Australasian Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


This text provides the basic framework for the lecture program and is required reading to prepare for each week’s classes.

Additional Reading:

 
Jackson, T. (2002) International HRM: A Cross-Cultural Approach, London: Sage.


This particular text provides a useful analysis of a variety of national and organisational approaches to management. Some individual chapters will be specifically recommended in the schedule provided below, but candidates are recommended to explore other chapters during in the course. 

As with any course of Higher Education, candidates will inevitably have varied levels of interest in the different subjects/topics covered. To allow for this, the weekly readings will include essential preparatory reading, but some lecture topics will include recommended additional reading (mainly from Jackson ,2002). These are seen as offering some useful extra sources that apply some of the relevant theories and models in a more fully developed analysis of ‘real-life’ organisations; please note that this edition is relatively old, but still provides one of the best sources, combining an excellent scholarly analysis of international management issues in a historical context (and many of the featured organisations are still operating today and offer a further opportunity for candidates to ‘up-date’ the analysis in the present day).


Candidates will also be expected to prepare for tutorials and this will normally include some reading, focusing on
refereed academic sources. Full details will be provided weekly in advance.

 
Recommended Resources:

There are a number of other general textbooks available in the library. These can be useful to ‘get started’ with a topic
area. There are also a number of more focused/specialised texts:

 

Chanlat, JF., Davel, E.  & Dupuis, JP (2013) Cross-Cultural Management: Culture and Management Across the World, Abingdon, UK: Routledge. (online version in library)

This is a particularly interesting text, taking a largely French view of culture and management – highly recommended, especially as an alternative to the many books on the subject that seem rather too obsessed with Hofstede and quantitative approaches to understanding culture.
 

Gannon, MJ and Pillai, R. (2010) Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys Through 29 Nations, 4th
Edition, London: Sage (online version in library)

This is a very useful addition to the ‘dimension based’ theoretical approaches to understanding culture. Metaphors are an important way of communicating about a variety of issues (not only culture) and can also be a powerful way of thinking about phenomena in a creative way that encourages insight and innovation.

 

Hofstede, G. (2001) Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions and Organizations
Across Nations, 2nd Ed., London: Sage.

This is the latest edition of Hofstede’s classic work on cultural dimensions. Although often controversial, his theoretical approach has long been influential in the study of culture at a national level; it is important that any serious scholar or culture should be familiar with his model, and it is a good idea to explore his own publications rather than relying on the often simplified versions presented in many textbooks.

 
Porter, ME. (1990) The Competitive Advantage of Nations, London: Macmillain Press.

This text is another influential one. Although it is quite old (in academic terms), it still provides an interesting perspective and draws from his other, better known work that introduces his model of generic strategies.

 

Stiglitz. JE. (2007). Making Globalisation Work. New York: WW Norton.

Possibly one of the best known critics of globalisation (and a Nobel Laureate); still a topical, emotive and controversial issue. If interested you could try his other writing in the field

 

Trompenaars, F. (1993) Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Business, London: Nicholas.

Not so much an alternative to Hoftstede’s work, as a variation on this approach to identifying and applying dimensions to cultural analysis.

 
 

There are also a number of relevant academic journals including (but not limited to):

 
Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal

International Journal of HRM

Journal of International Management.

International Journal of Commerce and Management.

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Management International Review.

International Business Review.

Lecture slides and recordings, general course information, assessment details and tutorial preparation exercises will be uploaded to MyUni.

 
Some recommended www-pages with regards to International Business/Management are:

Austrade                      www.austrade.gov.au

CIA World Factbook     https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook  

Global Edge                 http://globaledge.msu.edu/

New Internationalist    http://www.newint.org

OECD                           http://www.oecd.org

UNCTAD                       http://www.unctad.org

WTO                            http://www.wto.org

This course will be taught by 1½ hour weekly lectures supported by 1½ hour weekly tutorials. Tutorials are an important component of your learning in this course and are integral to the course assessment. The communication skills developed in tutorials by regularly and actively participating in discussions are considered important by the School and are highly regarded by employers and professional bodies.

Lecture slides and recordings, general course information, assessment details and tutorial preparation exercises will be uploaded to MyUni. In addition, course communication/announcements and possible additional readings and links will be suggested in MyUni throughout the semester.