East meets west: Using multi-cultural groupwork to develop the cross-cultural capability of tomorrow’s international managers

Journal of Teaching in International Business

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-22

  Ottewill, Roger ^a   Laughton, David ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business skills; Cross cultural capability; Globalization; Groupwork; Reflective practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011463461     PISSN: 08975930     EISSN: 15286991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J066v12n01_01     Document Type: Article

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