Cross Cultural Management

Cross Cultural Management

(BUS6060)

Professor Dr. Wendy Chung

San Diego Campus

Research Paper

- Great Britain -

Cross Cultural Management

Alliant International University

Author Note

Arturo Morales Student ID: 516395

Jeremy Liu (Fangming Liu) Student ID: 617063

Maria Röttgers Student ID: 617666

Historical Overview

England itself is actually not a country, but part of Great Britain, which again is part of the United Kingdom. Great Britain consists of the three regions England, Scotland and Wales. Besides Great Britain, Northern Ireland is also part of the United Kingdom. The history of England goes back to thousands years before Christ. Therefore, this historical overview will outline some major events in British history and will concentrate more on the last century.

Major events in British history were The Hundred Years War against France during the 14th century and the civil war that was also known as the War of Roses: the House of York was fighting against the House of Lancaster for the English throne, which weakened the power of the English aristocracy. (Strasbourg l’europénne: 2014)

Another aspect of the British history is that England, Scotland and Ireland are very different countries with different histories. Each kingdom favored a different form of religion. The English favored a moderate form of Protestantism, the Scottish were Calvinist and the Irish were stouthearted Catholics. But each kingdom also had strong minorities of other religions. The strongest minority group in England was the Catholics. Those religious differences were responsible for a lot of rebellions. For example in 1641, arms of Catholics in Ireland killed many hundreds of English and Scottish Protestants who had settled in their country. Religion always was a central issue of politicians and monarchs. (BBC: 2011)

In the modern world, 1714 to present, Britain is the only one that did not have a revolution in the last three centuries in contrast to other...