LEADER 05456nam 22007095 450 001 9910347932303321 005 20200701225536.0 010 $a3-030-25185-3 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-25185-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000009382595 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-25185-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5909867 035 $a(PPN)261526227 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009382595 100 $a20190927d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aManaging Chinese-African Business Interactions $eGrowing Intercultural Competence in Organizations /$fedited by Claude-Hélène Mayer, Lynette Louw, Christian Martin Boness 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (XVI, 249 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in African Leadership 311 $a3-030-25184-5 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Chinese Cultural Concepts and Their Influence on Management -- 3. African Cultural Concepts and Their Influence on Management -- 4. Case 1: Dealing With Organisational Strategies in the Tanzanian-Chinese Chalinze Water Project -- 5. Case 2: ?Not who I am, not what I mean?: Intercultural Communication in Chinese-African Interactions -- 6. Case 3: Dealing With Organisational Structures, Decision-making and Participation in the Zambian Textile Industry -- 7. Case 4: A Negotiation Between Chinese and African Organisations in Namibia -- 8. Case 5: How to Make Friends in Rwanda: A Chinese Tea Ceremony -- 9. Case 6: Setting Up Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMES) by Chinese Entrepreneurial Immigrants in Maputo, Mozambique -- 10. Case 7: Managing a Chinese-Angolan National Housing Project in Angola?s Capital, Luanda -- 11. Case 8: Language, Culture, and Power in the Chinese-South African Telecommunications Sector -- 12. Case 9: Transforming Employee Conflicts in a Chinese Construction Firm in Kampala, Uganda -- 13. Case 10: Sharing Knowledge in a Sudanese Oil Refinery Through Cultural and Language Trainings -- 14. Case 11: Working Conditions in a Chinese-Ugandan Communications Company -- 15. Case 12: Managing a Chinese-South African Restaurant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa -- 16. Case 13: Employee Perceptions of a Chinese Heavy Machinery Importing Organisation Operating in Uganda -- 17. Case 14: Hiring and Firing in the Chinese-Zimbabwean Mining Industry -- 18. Case 15: Managing Chinese-Cameroonian Daily Interactions in a Company in Douala, Cameroon -- 19. Case 16: A Cross-cultural Conference in the Mozambique Confucius Institute. 330 $aThis book provides deep insights into intercultural collaboration among business partners, employees, managers, and entrepreneurs in Chinese-African professional interactions. It presents cultural and theoretical knowledge on Chinese and African management, leadership, and philosophy. Chinese and African scholars and professionals share their insights into how to address intercultural management challenges proactively and successfully. The cases provide insights into a wide variety of industries and offer actual scenarios studied in governmental, parastatal, and private Chinese-owned organizations in twelve African countries. This book will benefit a broad readership including scholars in employment relations and business management as well as African and Chinese collaborators in academia, government, NGOs and industry. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in African Leadership 606 $aInternational business enterprises?Cross-cultural studies 606 $aInternational business enterprises 606 $aAfrica?Economic conditions 606 $aLeadership 606 $aPersonnel management 606 $aPublic relations 606 $aCross-Cultural Management$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/525040 606 $aAfrican Business$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/525030 606 $aBusiness Strategy/Leadership$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/515010 606 $aHuman Resource Management$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/517000 606 $aCorporate Communication/Public Relations$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/513040 615 0$aInternational business enterprises?Cross-cultural studies. 615 0$aInternational business enterprises. 615 0$aAfrica?Economic conditions. 615 0$aLeadership. 615 0$aPersonnel management. 615 0$aPublic relations. 615 14$aCross-Cultural Management. 615 24$aAfrican Business. 615 24$aBusiness Strategy/Leadership. 615 24$aHuman Resource Management. 615 24$aCorporate Communication/Public Relations. 676 $a658.18 702 $aMayer$b Claude-Hélène$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aLouw$b Lynette$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aBoness$b Christian Martin$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910347932303321 996 $aManaging Chinese-African Business Interactions$91963619 997 $aUNINA