Managing stakeholder 'push back', an exploratory investigation into dealing with negative cross cultural communication in a global environment
White, Mona, Haire, Joel, Rex, Judy and King, Janelle 2003, Managing stakeholder 'push back', an exploratory investigation into dealing with negative cross cultural communication in a global environment, in ANZMAC 2003 : a celebrations of Ehrenberg and Bass : marketing discoveries, knowledge and contribution, conference proceedings, University of South Australia, Adelaide, S. A., pp. 1533-1539.
This paper addresses the issue of a current business phenomenon – ‘push back’. This phenomenon has been experienced by a number of transnational companies. It is embedded in the challenges of cross-cultural communication and involves the linkage of local culture activists with globalisation acitivists in an alliance to stop business growth. This exploratory investigation examines three multinational organisations using qualitative research. From the findings a model has been developed in an attempt to provide practitioners with a framework with which to understand ‘push back’. The complexity of combating alliances of this nature raises challenges for the current approaches to marketing and the need for a multi-stakeholder approach in cross-cultural communication is suggested.
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