Disagreements as Cultured Enactments of Managerial Masculinity in Sino-American Joint Ventures.

We explored the cultured and gendered nature of managerial disagreements by examining how upper level co-managers in Sino-American joint ventures described conflicts they had experienced with their culturally different counterparts. We argued that such conflicts are one of the routine, situational accomplishments of everyday organizing practices that (re)construct cultures and masculinities. We examined tensions that arise in the management of joint ventures, the ways in which managerial masculinity emerged both similarly and differently across cultural groups, and ways in which culturally different enactments of managerial masculinity contributed to conflictual interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]