Review Elgar encyclopaedia of cross-cultural management (book review)

The Elgar Encyclopaedia of Cross-Cultural Management is a series of chapters written by academic experts on the study of culture in world business management. Edited by Professor Audra Mockaitis of Maynooth University in Ireland and Professor Christina Butler of Kingston Business School in Kingston University in the UK, the articles are written by seventy-eight university teachers from all over the world examining international business cultural management issues. The book contains 77 chapters, some as short as two pages long, and examines the role of cultural understanding in international business management, each chapter containing references to sources at the end. Intended primarily for teachers and students of cross-cultural/intercultural management, the Encyclopaedia is divided into eight sections. Part 1 examines conceptualisations and components of culture in international business management, while Part 2 explores similarities and differences between cultures. Part 3 focuses on concepts governing the interaction between business cultures, while Part 4 examines the principles of developing cultural awareness. Relating to an international working environment, Part 5 is devoted to cultural identity and diversity. Part 6 deals with managing people through cross-cultural management, and Part 7 deals with organisational and institutional perspectives, with chapters on networks and organisational culture and how it can change, before signing off in Part 8 with a review of theories of cross-cultural management. It is a book for academics, students, trainers, and managers wishing to increase their knowledge of the intellectual background to their work.