Abstract
The Trompenaars database (1993) updated with Hampden-Turner (1998) has been assembled to help managers structure their cross cultural experiences in order to develop their competence for doing business and managing across the world. The database comprises more than 50,000 cases from over 100 countries and is one of the world’s richest sources of social constructs. Woolliams and Trompenaars (1998) review the analysis undertaken by the authors in the last five years to develop the methodological approach underpinning the work. Recently Trompenaars with Hampden-Turner (Trompenaars and Woolliams, 1999) have extended the concepts into a new model on dilemma reconciliation of cultural differences. This paper reviews these latest updates in relation to dilemmas of cross- cultural business ethics. The paper asserts that knowledge in relation to business ethics is culturally specific; and that ethnocentrism is not to avoid. Too great an emphasis on rational-analytic conceptions of reality may mean taht syntheses, emotion, and intuition, are mot adequately developed. This presents implications for doing business and managing across cultures and for resolving ethical dilemmas.
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Moon, C.J., Woolliams, P. (2000). Managing Cross Cultural Business Ethics. In: Sójka, J., Wempe, J. (eds) Business Challenging Business Ethics: New Instruments for Coping with Diversity in International Business. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4311-0_11
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