Packed with cultural, company, and country examples, this book offers a mix of theory and practical applications covering globalization, global branding strategies, classification models of culture, and the consequences of culture for all aspects of marketing communications. The author helps define cross cultural segments to better target consumers across cultures and features content on how culture affects strategic issues, such as the companys mission statement, brand positioning strategy, and marketing communications strategy. It also demonstrates the centrality of value paradoxes to cross cultural marketing communications, and uses the Hofstede model to help readers see how their understanding of cultural relationships in one country/region can be extended to other countries/regions. Updates to the new edition include: Information and findings from recent studies, as well as new topics, including global public relations, culture and the media, and culture and the Internet. Global examples, with new cases from countries in Asia and Africa Includes broader background theory on usage differences of new digital media, along with more extensive coverage of consumer behavior.