Submitted by Paulo Junior (paulo.jr@fgv.br) on 2010-05-26T20:24:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Kim-Andre.pdf: 505337 bytes, checksum: 6650837d7123394777b796edc60d86b7 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Paulo Junior(paulo.jr@fgv.br) on 2010-05-26T20:24:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Kim-Andre.pdf: 505337 bytes, checksum: 6650837d7123394777b796edc60d86b7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-05-27T13:52:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Kim-Andre.pdf: 505337 bytes, checksum: 6650837d7123394777b796edc60d86b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-10 / With more and more business being done between Brazil and Norway we are seeing an increasing number of expatriates from Norway moving to Brazil!to work. Most!are!related!to!the!oil!and!gas!industries.!With!the!two!cultures,! countries!and!backgrounds!being!so!different!what!are!some!of!the!issues!and! challenges!that!arise? Using!existing!literature!as!well!as!faceRtoRface!interviews!of!Norwegian! expatriates!working!in!Rio!de!Janeiro!this!thesis!tries!to!compare!the!two! countries!and!at!the!same!time!explore!some!of!these!potential!issues.!The! research!focuses!on!differences!in!trust,!negotiation!style,!planning,!organization,! conflict!as!well!as!general!cultural!challenges. Analysis!of!the!responses!shows!that!for!some!issues!there!are!no!clear!problems! or!challenges!but!for!others!there!are.!Specifically!the!treatment!of!time!and!the! general!timeliness!in!Brazilian!society!seems!to!be!a!challenge!for!Norwegian! expatriates.!Secondly!and!equally!as!challenging!is!the!hierarchical!way!of! organizing!businesses!in!Brazil!compared!to!the!flatter!structure!found!in! Norwegian!businesses.!With!the!hierarchy!comes!also!bureaucracy,!another! factor!that!the!subjects!in!this!thesis!found!to!be!difficult!to!deal!with. The!thesis!is!divided!into!6!chapters!starting!with!'introduction',!followed!by! chapter!2!'Literature!review'.!Chapter!3!is!'Research!Methodology'!followed!by! chapter!4!'Data!presentation'.!Finally!the!results!are!discussed!in!chapter!5! 'Analysis!and!discussion' and!concluded!in!chapter!6.