Malcolm Cone

Malcolm teaches and researches international management and comparative approaches to management and business in the Asia Pacific and Latin America. He worked in business in New Zealand for a number of years before coming to tertiary education. Since then he has worked in a number of countries as a consultant in cross-cultural communication, and a researcher into the effects of culture on organisational behaviour. He has published studies on cross-cultural dilemmas faced by European firms in joint ventures in China. His current research interests are the modernisation and development in the Asia Pacific, particularly China, and the effects of economic change on self-description and motivation in non-western cultures in the Asia Pacific and Latin America.

He has recently completed work on a DVD entitled ‘Releasing the Dragon’; having achieved what is believed to be a world first in gaining access to former industrial brigades now called Town Village Enterprises. The organisations studied were all in Hubei province in Central China and constitute a cross-section of the TVE’s found in rural China – being involved in construction, high technology and light industry. The film is an investigation of the management of these organisations in a turbulent and rapidly changing economic landscape and the responses of these organisations to China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation. The DVD is available for purchase by contacting Malcolm directly.

Contacts:

Department of Management
School of Business
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin

Email: mcone@business.otago.ac.nz
Tel: + 64 3 479 8130
Fax: + 64 3 479 8173

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