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The paper focuses on and further develops the social attributes of intercultural collaboration. It introduces the findings of the Russian component of the GLOBE study (conducted in 62 countries) of manifestation of culture and leadership in business settings. In reflecting on the findings, the authors rely on interviewing managers of leading MNCs about cultural dimensions of Russian business environment, and on reviewing the case of 3M Company that demonstrates tactics to achieve successful intercultural collaboration.
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Grachev, M.V., Bobina, M.A. (2007). Intercultural Collaboration: Instrumentality of the GLOBE Study. In: Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds) Intercultural Collaboration. IWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_29
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