Stening, Bruce W. 1949- (Bruce William Stening)

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Stening, Bruce W. 1949- (Bruce William Stening)

PERSONAL:

Born 1949. Education: Holds a Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Australia. Office—ANU College of Business and Economics, Copland Bldg. 024, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.

CAREER:

Writer, educator. Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, professor and executive director of the Australia Asia Management Centre; previously served on the faculty of several other universities, both in Australia and in other countries, including Japan, Finland, Korea, and New Zealand, and the University of New South Wales-Asia.

MEMBER:

Australian Institute of Management (fellow), International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, International Association of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management, Academy of International Business.

WRITINGS:

(With J.E. Everett and A.R. Krishnan) South-East Asian Managers: Mutual Perceptions of Japanese and Local Counterparts, Eastern Universities Press (Singapore), 1984.

(With Dexter C. Dunphy, in association with Millicent Easther, Bronwyn Jones, and Jeannette Shi) Japanese Organization Behaviour and Management: An Annotated Bibliography, Asian Research Service (Hong Kong), 1984.

(With Charles R. Milton and Lanny Entrekin) Organizational Behaviour in Australia, Prentice-Hall of Australia (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 1984.

(Editor, with Gordon Redding) Cross-Cultural Management, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2003.

(With Fuming Jiang) The Chinese Business Environment: An Annotated Bibliography, Edward Elgar Publishing (Northampton, MA), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Bruce W. Stening is a writer and an educator who holds a doctoral degree in organizational behavior. He serves on the faculty of the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, where he a professor and the executive director of the Australia Asia Management Centre. Prior to joining the faculty of the Australian National University, Stening taught at a number of other universities around the world, including institutions in Japan, Finland, Korea, and New Zealand, as well as other universities in Australia, and including the University of New South Wales-Asia. In addition to his academic post, Stening serves as a member of several organizations, including the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, the International Association of Applied Psychology, the Academy of Management, and the Academy of International Business. He also belongs to the Australian Institute of Management, where he is a fellow. Over the course of his career, Stening has written and edited a number of books, including South-East Asian Managers: Mutual Perceptions of Japanese and Local Counterparts, which he wrote with J.E. Everett and A.R. Krishnan; Japanese Organization Behaviour and Management: An Annotated Bibliography, which he wrote with Dexter C. Dunphy in association with Millicent Easther, Bronwyn Jones, and Jeannette Shi; Organizational Behaviour in Australia, written with Charles R. Milton and Lanny Entrekin; Cross-Cultural Management, which he edited with Gordon Redding, and The Chinese Business Environment: An Annotated Bibliography, which he wrote with Fuming Jiang. In addition, he has published numerous academic papers, primarily in management and psychology journals, many of them addressing the ways in which managers can adapt when sent to work for long periods of time in a foreign country.

Stening's research into management systems around the world, and the best ways in which to meld practices from one's own country when working abroad, plays a key role in The Chinese Business Environment. Stening and coauthor Fuming Jiang examine a series of articles that have been written since 1990 and that look at the way business is practiced within China. The culture in China, which is very different from that in the West, results in miscommunication for managers attempting to operate within the confines of the country. Stening and Jiang discuss ways in which China's evolution and development from the latter part of the twentieth century affect businesses interested in developing commercial relationships with companies in the East. A reviewer for Reference & Research Book News particularly noted that the authors provide "an index of broad subject classifications," making the volume a handy reference.