In:Intercultural Experience in Narrative: Expatriate stories from a multicultural workplace
Michał Wilczewski
[Studies in Narrative 26] 2019
► pp. xix–xix
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.26.lot
https://doi.org/10.1075/sin.26.lot
List of tables
Table 2.1Prototype business conditions for business expatriates28
Table 2.2Essentialist vs. non-essentialist view of culture30
Table 6.1Interviewees’ characteristics117
Table 7.1Strategies devised by Polish expatriates to facilitate communication and collaboration with Chinese employees149
Table 8.1Examples of explicit knowledge about Polish vs. Chinese managers and their approaches to decision making created by Polish
expatriates through cultural learning in the MNC’s Chinese subsidiary189
Table 8.2Summary of Polish vs. Chinese professional identity constructions through the lens of decision making191
Table 9.1An expatriate’s learning and emotions when experiencing a new management style200
Table 9.2Examples of explicit knowledge about local management and managers vs. cultural others’ management created by Polish
expatriates through cultural learning in the MNC’s Chinese subsidiary234
