A Frenchman rents a Hollywood movie. A Thai schoolgirl mimics Madonna. Saddam Hussein chooses Frank Sinatra's "My Way" as the theme song for his fifty-fourth birthday. It is a commonplace that glob…
Succeed in Any Culture, in Every Situation In today’s global economy, the ability to interact effectively across cultures is a fundamental job requirement for just about everyone. But it’s i…
This book demonstrates how the success of foreign companies depends on the extent to which they can benefit from structural transformation, that is, maximizing economic benefit derived from industr…
This book is the first of its kind that provides a comprehensive overview and insightful analyses of Chinese business culture, behavioral patterns, and mind games from an insider's perspective. It …
This work gives guidance to help managers navigate the customs and practices that support Chinese businesses. It offers suggestions for resolving rifts between Eastern and Western ways of doing bus…
Offers an economist's view of everyday human behavior, and examines surprising situations from everyday life, such as why is movie theater popcorn so expensive, and why do seatbelts cause more acci…
The essays in this collection challenge conventional ideas about consumption and consumerism: they consider if the inundation of Western consumer goods have created identity confusions among the af…
The inspiration for the film that won the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary, The Corporation contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a ps…
"Ten years ago, Michael J. Weiss published his book The Clustering of America, in which he presented a totally new way of viewing the nation: not as fifty states but rather as forty neighborhood ty…
Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies hum…