Abstract
Given the unprecedented rise in global business, growing cultural diversity in micro and macro environments, and the complex issues of dominance, marginalization, and power, critiques of cross-cultural management are more important than at any other period in the young history of the field. Critiques of cross-cultural management are based subjective and radical change paradigms of analysis, and center on three main areas: the overreliance on Western models of management, oversimplification and generalization of cultural differences, and a lack of attention to power differences and structural inequality. This entry provides a high-level overview of the critiques and their relevance to cross-cultural management research.