P. Christopher Earley is the Corporate Partners Research Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine and Professor of Organization Behavior at the London Business School. He is the author of five books and numerous articles and book chapters, and his most recent publications include Culture, Self-Identity, and Work (Oxford University Press 1993) and The Transplanted Executive: Managing in Different Cultures (Oxford University Press 1997).

'I would recommend this book as an important addition to your preparations for India. His framework will work for you regardless of location, because it links you to differences in values and to different behavioyral cultural phenomena.' Financial Times 5/5/1999 by John W Hunt

• 1: Introduction and Overview 2: General Framework and Model 3: Face and Social Context 4: Mianzi as a Form of Face 5: Lian as a Form of Face 6: The Social Actor 7: Harmony and Face 8: Societal Context 9: Organizational Context and Content 10: Resulting Patterns and Consequences 11: Conclusions and Research Agenda References Index