Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures - Paperback

by Fons Trompenaars (Author), Peter Prud'homme (Author)

Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures peels away the mysteries of corporate culture to reveal why it has such a powerful influence on every aspect of the performance of a business. It shows how to shape high-performing corporate cultures in a complex international environment.

As the natural successor to Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner's landmark bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture, Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures shows exactly how to create an environment where astonishing business breakthroughs are possible. You will also learn how to renew cultures as part of change and how to integrate cultures successfully following mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.

New research shows that in cross-border business, differences in corporate culture have more far-reaching repercussions than even differences in national cultures. Never before has there been such enormous interest in shaping and changing the cultures of our businesses, whether to revitalise them after restructuring or to provide the glue that holds them together through the sea changes of globalization.

Front Jacket

The ability to shape and change corporate cultures is of vital importance for today's international managers. Revitalising corporate cultures after restructuring, providing the right glue to hold the company together during a globalization process and preventing corporate culture clashes in international post-merger, acquisition or joint venture processes are key business issues. This book discusses what corporate culture is, how it can be assessed, why corporate culture has such a powerful influence on the economic performance of organizations, and how high-performing corporate cultures can be shaped in an international environment.

It offers a new conceptual framework for understanding corporate cultures and the impact of national culture patterns on corporate culture. Recent case study material from leading international companies from the US, Europe and Asia is used throughout the book.

Back Jacket

Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures peels away the mysteries of corporate culture to reveal why it has such a powerful influence on every aspect of the performance of a business. It shows how to shape high performing corporate cultures in a complex international environment.

As the natural successor to Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner's landmark bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture, Managing Change Across Corporate Cultures shows exactly how to create an environment where astonishing business breakthroughs are possible.

New research shows that in cross-border business, differences in corporate culture have more far-reaching repercussions than even differences in national cultures. Never before has there been such enormous interest in shaping and changing the cultures of our businesses, whether to revitalise them after restructuring or to provide the glue that holds them together through the sea changes of globalization.

THE CULTURE FOR BUSINESS series addresses the most important business issues of the moment from a specifically cross-cultural perspective. It is grounded in the research that underpins the unique Trompenaars Hampden-Turner (THT) database of cross-cultural profiles. Over 60,000 managers from more than 60 countries across the world have completed THT's extensive diagnostic questionnaire, and the series draws on this deep research base as a platform for these highly accessible guides to key business subjects like strategic planning and scenarios, corporate culture and communications. The series is entertaining and inviting, aimed at busy executives who need to be able to address contemporary business issues from multiple perspectives.

Author Biography

Fons Trompenaars is director of Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner (THT), an innovative centre of excellence in intercultural management. He is the world's foremost authority on cross-cultural management and is author and co-author of several books, including Did the Pedestrian Die?, 21 leaders for the 21st Century and the worldwide bestseller, Riding the Waves of Culture.

Peter Prud'Homme is an expert in business culture. For nearly fifteen years he was a manager with international responsibilities at Philips, where he was involved in a major corporate culture change programme (Centurion). Since 1993 he has been a corporate culture consultant to major American, European and Asian companies in 35 countries. Peter has worked with THT for 6 years and now has his own consultancy, Cross-Cultural Organisations. Peter has been published extensively on the impact of culture on globalization, leadership and mergers & acquisitions.