List of tables
Table 2.1Prototype business conditions for business expatriates
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Table 2.2Essentialist vs. non-essentialist view of culture
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Table 6.1Interviewees’ characteristics
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Table 7.1Strategies devised by Polish expatriates to facilitate communication and collaboration with Chinese employees
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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 subsidiary
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Table 8.2Summary of Polish vs. Chinese professional identity constructions through the lens of decision making
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Table 9.1An expatriate’s learning and emotions when experiencing a new management style
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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 subsidiary
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