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Co-operation and Conflict in International Entrepreneurs When Cultures Collide

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This chapter introduces the framework of culturally-rooted ‘co-operative cheating’ for international entrepreneurship which provides different degrees of hierarchy and group behavior in individualistic entrepreneurship and group-centered loyalty. International entrepreneurs are exposed to different cultural behavior and workplace cheating. The typologies of co-operative cheating are used to understand the clashes of cultures and how avoid conflicts by offering incentives to co-operate and to divert culturally-rooted cheating.

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    Ursula F. Ott

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    Ana Tur Porcar

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    Domingo Ribeiro Soriano

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Ott, U.F. (2018). Co-operation and Conflict in International Entrepreneurs When Cultures Collide. In: Tur Porcar, A., Ribeiro Soriano, D. (eds) Inside the Mind of the Entrepreneur. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62455-6_16

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