International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures, Text and Cases

Easy to read and understand. Case studies are very helpful in wrapping the chapter up.

I read this book as part of my MBA programme, and have found the material to be quite comprehensive, albeit from a predominantly American view. The author (Deresky) analyzed cultural differences and the different strategies for achieving better results when managing internationally. I recommend it as part of a course being taught at a college or university, as it can be rather academic and dry in presentation. The comprehensive cases are excellent sources of information and provide a glimpse of real life examples of successes and failure in Multi-National Corporations and Joint Ventures.

This book was published in 2004. I have used it for the past three years in a college course with exactly the same title. It covers the cultural differences of managerial operations in multinational enterprises. The PowerPoint slide is useful for lectures. Many in-class exercises were done using articles from: BusinessWeek, Crains NY Business, Economist (online), Financial Times (online), Forbes and Fortune magazines. The book will be better if more real-world examples were given on CEO of Ikea, Mittal Steel or News Corporation. Students did the reseach on the CEOs of these firms and reported their final projects. Final projects were done individually or in a group. Students generally like the book except the cost. But the book is cheaper than most of the other international management titles. I would recommend this book to everyone.

Excellent Book. I was impressed on how the author was able to showthe various difficulties that are faced and how one can go about managing them. Real scenarios helped a lot in understanding the difficulties better in International relations.