Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Despite its considerable extension and a heterogeneous natural and human potential, the Islamic
world presents a relative cultural homogeneity whose hardcore is profound respect for religion and
ancestral tradition. In view of it, economic practices are grafted on a cultural and religious sub-
strate, tending towards autarchy and rejection of Western values. Therefore, when transnational
companies wish to accede to the Islamic market, prompted also by geopolitical reasons, oil resources
and the reshaping of the spheres of influences after the USSR fell apart, might encounter serious
difficulties unless negotiations take into account local cultural particularities.