... names, avoid tittles and greet with a handshake. However, "In Sweden, people tend to leave a relatively large distance between each other when speaking" Doing Business in Sweden, www.communicaid.com , accessed 28/10/2009. In the communication, it's preferred to use the telephone rather than letters, as it's faster, and it doesn't require secretarial assistance. The business dress is conservative, the business men wear suits and ties and women suits or dresses and always avoid any flaunt of status or wealth. As Sweden is a very equalitarian society, it doesn't consider status important at all. The decisions can be made at any level of the enterprise by a large number of people. "An effect of this decision- making structure is that managers must constantly collaborate with others at lower levels of the hierarchy" Vikings and Mandarins, Sino-Scandinavian Business Cooperation in Cross- Cutural Settings (1997) The anti-authoritarian attitude and the informal relations create an environment where the ...

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