Inter-cultural Conflict: Inspired By A True Story
Swedish Press|March 2018

Read through this story and try to find the cultural dimensions defined on page 12. (Answers in the endnotes.)

Peter Berlin
Inter-cultural Conflict: Inspired By A True Story

The year is 1987. A political thaw is softening the relationship between East and West. A Western delegation arrives in Moscow to negotiate the launch of an American-built spacecraft with a Russian rocket manufacturer. If the negotiations succeed, this will be the first Western satellite ever to be launched by a Soviet rocket. History is about to be made.

The Western delegation consists of the American project manager Susan Cartland, accompanied by an American female lawyer and a Swedish male expert on launch systems. The three of them are 30 – 35 years old. Susan is a rising star within the company where she works. She has recently been appointed project manager on the basis of her technical knowledge, strong convictions and ability to rally people around her1. She has picked her negotiating team because they share her temperament and values2.

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