Cognitive cultural intelligence and entrepreneurial alertness: evidence from highly educated, employed immigrants in the USA

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Cross Cultural & Strategic Management Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI:10.1108/ccsm-03-2021-0048

Jie Yang, Mingchuan Yu, Jintong Tang, Jieqiong Ma

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Abstract

Purpose There is a dearth of research on how immigrants' cognitive attributes influence their willingness to be self-employed. To offset this paucity, the current study draws on the insights of social cognitive theory (SCT) to examine the immigrants' entrepreneurial alertness.Design/methodology/approach The authors hired Qualtrics to recruit educated, working immigrants in the USA and tested the hypotheses using a sample of 555 highly educated, employed immigrants from 92 home countries.Findings This study finds that immigrants' cognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) contributes to entrepreneurial alertness in a positive way. In addition, immigrants' perceived environmental differences and global identity positively moderate the relationship between cognitive CQ and entrepreneurial alertness.Originality/value This research provides a clear picture of how cognitive CQ impacts immigrants' entrepreneurial alertness; thus, the findings of this study offer ample implications for policymakers. By applying SCT, the current study extended research on immigrants' entrepreneurial alertness by shifting the focus from their individual (e.g. demographic background) or family characteristics to their cognitive attributes. This study suggests that policymakers and entrepreneurship education programs in the U.S.A. should consider offering various types of cultural training programs.

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认知文化智力和创业警觉性:来自美国受过高等教育的就业移民的证据

目的关于移民的认知属性如何影响他们成为个体经营者的意愿，目前缺乏研究。为了弥补这一不足，本研究借鉴社会认知理论（SCT）的见解来检验移民的创业警觉性。设计/方法论/方法作者聘请Qualtrics在美国招募受过教育的在职移民，并使用来自92个母国的555名受过高等教育的就业移民样本来检验这些假设。研究结果本研究发现，移民的认知文化智力（CQ）对创业警觉性有积极的贡献。此外，移民感知的环境差异和全球认同积极调节了认知CQ与创业警觉性之间的关系。独创性/价值这项研究清楚地说明了认知CQ如何影响移民的创业警觉性；因此，这项研究的发现为政策制定者提供了充分的启示。通过应用SCT，当前的研究扩展了对移民创业警觉性的研究，将重点从他们的个人（如人口背景）或家庭特征转移到他们的认知属性。这项研究表明，美国的政策制定者和创业教育项目应该考虑提供各种类型的文化培训项目。

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Cross Cultural & Strategic Management MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： Cross Cultural & Strategic Management (CCSM), is dedicated to providing a forum for the publication of high quality cross-cultural and strategic management research in the global context. CCSM is interdisciplinary in nature and welcomes submissions from scholars from international business, management and other disciplines, such as anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology. The goal of CCSM is to publish discerning, theoretically grounded, evidence-based and cutting edge research on issues relevant to all aspects of global management. CCSM is especially interested in theoretical and empirical papers that investigate new and unique ideas and/or are multilevel (micro-meso-macro) and/or are multidisciplinary in nature. Research papers submitted to CCSM are expected to include an answer to the question: What is the contribution of this paper to the literature and the field of international business and managing in the global context? CCSM accepts theoretical/conceptual and empirical papers based on quantitative and qualitative research endeavors that advance our overall knowledge of international business. This includes research that yields positive, neutral or negative findings as long as these studies are based on sound research methodology, and have a good command of the theory/literature that pertains to the phenomena under investigation. These studies should also provide a more in-depth interpretation of the reason(s) for the findings and include more detailed recommendations for future research directions.