David C. Thomas (PhD University of South Carolina) is currently the Professor of International Business in the School of Management at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of nine other books including the bestselling Cultural Intelligence: Living and Working Globally . His book Cross-Cultural Management: Essential Concepts was the winner of the R. Wayne Pace Human Resource Development book of the year award for 2008. Additionally, he has recently edited (with Peter B. Smith and Mark F. Peterson) The Handbook of Cross-Cultural Management Re...