Transcultural Management: A New Approach for Global Organizations

"Highly recommAnded for anyone interested in the theory or practiceof global business relationships, particularly between Japanese andAmericans. Full of excellent examples and applications." (Robert T.Moran, Ph.D., professor of international studies, ThunderbirdAmerican Graduate School of International Management)

"This book brings a new identity to business based on a culturalintervention for adapting, surviving, and prospering in a new age."(Hiroyuki Sawada, president, Gemini Consulting (Japan), Inc)

"This is the first business management book based on a trulymulticultural perspective. Only a multilingual, multicultural,multiorganization consultant can render such keen insights intomanaging today's multicultural organizations. Funakawa offers solidtheories, realistic strategies, and crucial communication methods.I highly recommend this book to any manager who wants to take on agenuine global perspective." (T. Todd Imahori, Ph.D., associateprofessor, San Francisco State University)

"This is a rare book of great importance. It provides comprehensiveperspectives and guidelines on cultural aspects of global businessmanagement that are critically important to business success buttoo often neglected by international managers." (Masazumi Ishii,managing director, AZCA, Inc)

"This book presents the best Japanese-American cultural paradigm Ihave seen for business. Funakawa respects and carefully explainsthe relevant differences in the cultures while providing anexcellent blAnd of theory and the facts. If your task is to developa new organizational culture in Japan, reading this book is thebest way to gain the needed understanding and at the same time avery practical place to start." (Rex Valentine, general manager,Diabetes Health Care, Nippon Becton Dickinson Company, Ltd.)

"As an international business consultant I highly recommend thisbook, not only to anyone doing business with Japan, but also to keypeople in companies doing international business anywhere."(William T. Grubb, managing director, InterContinental MarketingSystems)

"Transcultural Management provides the critical linkage of suchsoft issues as culture and communication and hard corporatestrategies. Funakawa has proved the importance of the convergencefor practitioners." (Hisataka Takasugi, managing director, DentsuBurson-Marsteller Co., Ltd.)