Steven Feldman

Trouble in the Middle

American-Chinese Business Relations, Culture, Conflict, and Ethics

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will help readers better understand the ethical and cultural assumptions that both American and Chinese business cultures bring to business relationships. Based on historical context, theory, and a research-based comparison of how American and Chinese executives perceive the ethical and cultural aspects of doing business, it analyzes the relationships developed between the two cultures. Overall, Feldman's research and conceptualization of this cultural interaction will prove useful to all those who wish to expertly navigate the Chinese-American business relationship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780415818773
• ISBN-10: 041581877X
• Artikelnr.: 36540299

Autorenporträt

Steven P. Feldman is professor of business ethics at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He was Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in business ethics at Shanghai International Studies University in Shanghai, China. His Ph.D is from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. He has held visiting positions at Oxford University, University of Innsbruck, and the University of Minnesota. He has lectured broadly in China on business ethics issues. His previously published books are Memory as a Moral Decision and The Culture of Monopoly Management. He has published extensively in management journals on ethical and cultural issues. Steve specializes in American-Chinese business relations, business ethics, and nonprofit management.

Inhaltsangabe

@SelectedContents: Introduction 1. Rationale for and Outline of the Book 2.
Trouble in the Middle: The Ethics of Cross-Cultural Business Relations
Culture and History 3. Central Control and Its Shadow: A Brief History of
Chinese Culture and Institutions 4. Confused Motives and Deep Ambivalences:
A Brief History of American-Chinese Cross-Cultural Relations in China
Government and Corruption 5. The Turtle and the Hare: An Essay on Political
and Economic Reform in China 6. Business-Government Corruption in China:
Americans Suffer Only the Half of It Culture and Conflict 7. One's, Two's,
and Three's: The Roots of Cultural Conflict in American-Chinese Business
Relations 8. Culture, Corruption, and Business in China: The Conflicting
Worlds of American and Chinese Intellectual Property 9. Clear as Mud: The
Ethics of Intellectual Property in China 10. Power, Property, and Culture:
American-Chinese Conflicts over Intellectual Property in China Conclusion
11. Notes on the Cultural Middle Epilogue 12. Three Years Later: 2010