The Research Of Crosscultural Management On Project Between S Company And Nigerian F Group

With the tendency of globalization, international cooperation projectsamong enterprises prevail in nowadays business world. As these projectsinvolve different countries, participants with different set of values, beliefs,work attitudes and ways of working may come in conflicts which lead to theincrease of cost and lack of efficiency. To solve these kind of conflicts andestablish an efficient cross-cultural team is a challenging task facing theinternational project management.African markets, as emerging markets in the world today, have beenattracting global attention. Under the guidance of "going out" policy, Chineseenterprises now are eyeing the overseas markets. This paper focused on thecase study of an international cooperation project between a giant Chineseenergy company S and a Nigerian energy company, F Group, whocooperatively participated in the bidding of several power plants during theNigerian electricity privatization process. With the analysis of national andcultural differences impact on management and the comparison amongChinese, Western and Nigerian culture, we worked out the main conflictsoccurred in this project and the reasons accordingly, and thus proposed somecross-cultural management solutions.