Subject Index
Page numbers in italicsrefer to boxes,
figures and tables.absolute/relative comparative cost
advantage 12–13, 15, 19
absorption acquisitions 95
acculturation 91, 92
see alsoexpatriates; repatriation
achievement vsascription 151
acquis communautaire, EU 436–9
acquisitions see mergers and
acquisitions (M&A)
activity orientations 157, 160
actor–systems relations 126–7, 133–4
adaptive orientation 60, 61
advocacy role 81
affective vsneutral dimensions 151
Africa 240, 241, 242–3
indigenous value systems 234–5
agency theory 309
Amsterdam Treaty (1997) 435–6, 437–8,
442, 466
androgynous managers 364
Anglo-American capitalist model 413–14,
417, 418, 423, 424, 428
and national systems 426
Anglo-American management style 231,
232–3, 234, 236, 237
appraisal see underperformance management
area division structure 42–4, 46
ascription vsachievement 151
Asia 401–2
‘Asian Tiger’ economies 397
US women expatriates 369–70, 371
see alsodeveloping countries; East Asia
assets and resources distribution 80
assignments seeglobal assignments
Austria 169, 422
authoritarianism 229, 230
autonomy
and freedom 174, 175
political 427
professional 124, 125balance sheet approach 308, 314–15
‘balanced scorecard’ performance
measure 324‘bear’ role 265
behaviour 149
best of both (M&A) 96
‘best practice’ 92
repatriation 339–42
bicultural interpreter role 81
Bing Fa (Chinese war strategies) 199, 200
‘boundaryless’ careers 344, 345–6
‘bumble-bee’ role 265–6
bureaucracy, developing countries 229
bureaucratic formalized control 55, 56 , 57
business systems
national and Euro-company 462–6
typology 129–31capital resources 21
capital vslabour (H–O theorem) 12–13, 16
capitalism 412–17
analytical distinctions 417–21
contradictory trends 427–8
East Asia model(s) 200–8
European social model(s) 421–7
‘pure’ 412–13
varieties of 413–17
see alsoglobalisation
career issues
‘boundaryless’ careers 344, 345–6
career differentiation 125–6
‘plateaued-career free agents’ 275, 276
repatriation 340, 345–6, 350–1
women 360–1, 364–6
CCT seecross-cultural training
centralization, EU industrial relations 444–6
centralized HR companies 75–6
centralized hub structure 47–8, 56–7
‘centres of excellence’ 28, 48
children’s education 314
China 208–11
Chinese Culture Connection (CCC)
study 144, 147–8
philosophical tradition 196–200,
208, 211–12
women expatriates 370, 371–2
‘coffee-machine system’, expatriate
selection 270–1
collective bargaining 419–20, 422,
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