Our articles

On this page you can find some links to various articles and columns written by THT members. The documents are all PDF files, which can be viewed with Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher.

Successful Mergers Integrate Cultures
A short overview of Fons’ key note speech for the SHRM conference in San Diego end of June published in the SHRM Daily.

Navigating Cultural Differences
An interview with our Consultant Maarten Nijhoff Asser in the Financial Times by Emma Jacob, published on the 19th of July 2010.

Dealing with Culture Issues During an Acquisition/Integration

A Conversation with Maarten Nijhoff Asser and Jay Chatzkel, editor of Beyond the Deal Newsletter. Beyond the Deal is a consultancy specialising in merger and acquisition integration, helping businesses around the world get more from their deals.

Getting the measure of culture: from values to business performance
Prof Fons Trompenaars, PhD and Prof. Peter Woolliams, PhD (December 2005)
Article for publication in Organizational Change Newsletter (editor Prof. Jerry Glover)

A new paradigm for HR: dilemmas in employing and managing the resourceful human
Fons Trompenaars, PhD and Peter Woolliams, Phd.

Article for: The Future of HR: 50 Thought Leaders Call for Change. New York: Wiley. In Press. (with J. Ericksen). (Also to be published in Human Resource Management).

A new paradigm for Marketing Across Cultures: Article for Marketing Insights (Singapore)
Prof. Fons Trompenaars, PhD and Prof. Peter Woolliams, PhD
The new concepts described here are explored further in the new book ’Marketing Across Cultures’ (Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams), published by Capstone Wiley July 2004 ~ see www.cultureforbusiness.com

A new framework for managing change across cultures.
Trompenaars, F. and P. Woolliams (2003)
Keywords: dilemma theory, corporate culture, change transformation, cross-culture, opposing values.
In: Journal of Change Management, Volume Three Number Four May 2003, pp. 361-375.

The Quest For a New Paradigm of International Leadership
Opening Lecture of Professor Fons Trompenaars, Holder of the Professorship Van Rossum (December 2002)
Inauguration of the Van Rossum Professorship on European Multiculturality at the Solvay Business School

Dilemma’s of Multi-Cultural Leaders:A New Unified Model of Trans-Cultural Competence.
Trompenaars, F. and P. Woolliams (2001)
In: Velocity Vol. 3, No.1 - 1 st Quarter 2001, pp. 13-18.

The Dilemma Doctors
This article on Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner was written by Art Kleiner for Strategy+Business, the monthly publication by Booz Allen Hamilton in March 2001