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Managing in mexico
Gordan, Gus
Gordan, Gus
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The purpose of this study is to compare the author’s experience in founding and managing a company in Merida, Mexico to existing literature on cross-cultural management. The results should prove useful for non-Mexican managers working in Mexico and can provide a basis for devising empirical- based research to test the ethnographic results reported. The author concludes that most of the discriminating characteristics associated with Hofstede’s seminal study on cross-culture management are diminishing in Mexico and that to a great extent convergence of cultures is occurring. Nevertheless, certain cultural vestiges remain intact and operable and must be considered in management philosophy. The author found that creating trust and a stakeholder mentality were crucial variables to melding the cultural differences. A high level of cultural competence was an important mediating force in melding the cultural differences. However, the political and legal differences of the Mexican system, compared to the U. S. continue to create obstacles to managing in Mexico.
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2010-02
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