Bridging the Global Cultural Gap

If the conjectures in Chapter 9 are sustainable, then we must expect to see Asian development as unique. Psychic if not technological distance will be maintained but perhaps also transformed by the process required to sustain necessary global information exchange. This has clear implications for any collaborations that may be envisaged within the emerging global business system. Potential collaboration would seem to have to aim for the differences that undoubtedly exist between the individualist shareholder-driven system, the communal stakeholder-driven system and the emergent stakeholder-less business systems.1