Financial management in supply chain as cross-cultural competence
Financial management in supply chain as cross-cultural competence

Author(s): Anna Bruska
Subject(s): Supranational / Global Economy, Business Economy / Management, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Management and complex organizations, Globalization, Socio-Economic Research, Transport / Logistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
Keywords: financial management;supply chain;cross-cultural competence;international exchange;
Summary/Abstract: Global character of supply chains imposes on its participants contacts in highly differentiated cultural context. Culturally-led background of business models results in different practices in everyday management of operations in supply chains, among others also in differences in financial management. To be prepared for the cooperation in other cultural milieu, supply chain managers need to be aware of those differences, and to acquire the cross-cultural competence in the financial domain.Three mains culturally formed models of supply chain financing: Chinese, Muslim and European need to be understand and cross-culturally applied to enhance the ability of supply chain managers to support successfully in the international exchange. The text aims to describe the aforementioned models and to explain its consequences for supply chain financing.

• Details
• Contents