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The Janus Face of Commercial Open Source Software

“This lucid, engaging, book shows how open source revolutionaries bridged the worlds of collaborative software engineering and competitive capitalism.

Students of the transformation of professional work in the technology era will find the analyses riveting, for Westenholz and her collaborators tell the story of a professional ethos that collided with the profit-making imperative and survived."

Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, USA

 

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Do not leave home without this!

What might be polite in one culture can be seen as rude in another. Richard R. Gesteland’s book Cross-Cultural Business Behavior has since the first edition in 1996 been a big help for many business travelers by identifying and describing business standards and practices in different countries.

But cultures change over time and so does the international manager’s challenges. In this fifth, thoroughly revised edition of his bestseller, Gesteland has updated every country profile and even added some new ones.

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