Managing in Britain and Germany Author:Rosemary Stewart, etc., Jean-Louis Barsoux, Alfred Kieser, Hans-Dieter Ganter, Peter Walgenbach Placing managerial behaviour in its organizational, educational, institutional and cultural context, this is a comparison of British and German managers' behaviour and views of their work, that seeks to explain the differences. The book is based on a two-year comparative study by British and German research teams. It challenges the universal law... more » of management presented in so many management books by showing how differently German middle managers think and act. These differences are then unravelled and traced back to their various roots - ranging from the particular (the nature of the job, product or organization) to the general (the society's institutions and values).« less