{"title":"Teaching cultural intelligence for a VUCA world","authors":"Nadine Binder, U. Kühnen","doi":"10.1504/ejccm.2021.116892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ejccm.2021.116892","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to add to the understanding of how to conceptualise and promote intercultural competencies in a VUCA world by reviewing core elements of cultural intelligence and parameters of VUCA. We argue that recommendations for how leaders can positively face VUCA in their organisations and core elements of cultural intelligence conceptually correspond to such an extent that promoting students' cultural intelligence may also equip them with the necessary skills to deal with VUCA. Specifically, teaching cultural intelligence should focus on the role of self-reflection, mindfulness, and self-efficacy. Based on these theoretical propositions, we designed, conducted, and evaluated a university course aimed at promoting students' cultural intelligence and self-efficacy. Quantitative and qualitative data provide evidence for its effectiveness. Overall, the data offer insights into how to teach transferable skills at universities to prepare students to become global leaders, able to confidently engage with cultural diversity in a globalised, VUCA world.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126855739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural values and leadership styles as determinants of the innovative strength of nations. Part 1: Culture and leadership theories","authors":"P. Moonen","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2019.10016034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2019.10016034","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to address the impact of cultural values and leadership style on the innovative strength of nations. In this paper the theoretical frameworks of the well-known scholars Hofstede, Schwartz and Cameron and Quinn are critically evaluated and compared with each other. Based on literature review we may conclude that there is a correlation between cultural values and leadership styles of countries in question and their innovative strength. This research has assessed the relation between national cultures in general on the innovative strength of nations. In 'Cultural values and leadership styles as determinants of innovative strengths of nations. Part 2' this has been assessed by quantitative research and analysis. By critically evaluating the qualitative cultural frameworks of several well-known scholars and relating then to quantitative statistical data about the innovative strength of nations, this study has combined the strengths of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128211672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CULTURAL VALUES OF SELF INITIATED EXPATRIATES. A PILOT STUDY","authors":"Chiara Cannavale, Marie-Thérèse Claes","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2019.10019030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2019.10019030","url":null,"abstract":"Because of their mobility and capability to adapt, self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) are very attractive for transnational companies, which increasingly view international business skills development and foreign work experience as part of career progression. SIEs are highly skilled professionals who decide to expatriate independently of any employer and mostly without organisational assistance. However, SIEs' lack of organisational embeddedness poses some challenges for companies, which need to understand how they can keep valuable resources inside the organisation. More needs to be known about the factors influencing SIEs, and about the motivations, which could help companies in attracting them in the long-term. This paper aims at exploring the impact of previous international experience of SIEs, and understanding more about the individual cultural values affecting their decisions.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129543603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biculturals, team facilitation and multicultural team performance: an information-processing perspective","authors":"Franziska Engelhard, Dirk Holtbrügge","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005312","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on multicultural teams shows that the characteristics of its members are highly relevant for team performance. However, few studies focus on the influence of culture on supporting processes such as boundary-spanning activities. In this study, we test the impact of bicultural individuals on team facilitation activities and the relationship of these activities with team performance. Based on an information-processing theory, six research hypotheses are developed and tested using a sample of 137 bicultural and monocultural individuals. Partial least-squares (PLS) modelling reveals a significant positive association between biculturalism and team facilitating activities. The study also reveals a mediating effect of internal group processes and group cohesion on the relationship between team facilitation and team performance. An important managerial implication of this study is to consider selecting bicultural individuals when staffing multicultural teams. This is followed by further implications and limitations of the study.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125773999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of landscape and strategic communication in managing legitimacy between a state and its citizens","authors":"S. McDonald, Simon Moore","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005318","url":null,"abstract":"The physical landscape has historically played a vital role in defining a polity to people, but modern states have not adjusted it to the needs of the information age. We argue in this conceptual paper that: (1) Modern states should include landscape when communicating their identity. (2) Landscapes possess an emotional equity that could be magnified by social media and other information age media. (3) History demonstrates that premodern and later states understood the communication power of landscape. (4) A shift from natural landscape to culturally perceived boundaries undermined the legitimacy of many states partly by weakening their identity. (5) A return to historical, often premodern perception of landscape as a communication asset would help states harness landscape's communication power.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131177618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influences from cybersecurity and terrorism on social and cultural perspectives of IT influencers","authors":"R. Deller","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005319","url":null,"abstract":"A major perspective associated with how terrorism is conducted in the world today is through cyberattack. Consequently, growth of internet use through social and cultural interests brings cybercrime increasingly into concern for both business and governments. There can be little doubt therefore that while governments and societies around the world deal with issues of terrorism, they are also addressing possible impacts on cultural and social behaviour from cyberattacks. Thus, the facility of terrorist perpetrators to engage in use of internet communication poses threats to different elements of citizen interest. An investigation into the thinking of world leaders in information technology development as represented across an 8-year period is conducted to determine whether the community addresses problems from internet use while considering other technological issues.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116800214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic support for transformative communication in a cross-cultural setting","authors":"D. Ryback, R. Motschnig","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005315","url":null,"abstract":"The concept of cultural intelligence has been developed over two decades ago, following the popularisation of the concept of emotional intelligence, itself a branching of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences. The global reach of social media has encouraged the recognition of cultural intelligence on more of us increasingly over time. The partisan split in the governments of many western nations has forced even more attention on the need to bridge such divides with greater cultural intelligence, transforming our communication when interacting with very diverse entities. The recent spate of 'lone wolf' terrorist attacks points to further need to bridge cultural gaps, here between such 'lone wolves' and their surrounding culture. Innovative solution models are offered to help resolve some of these challenges. These include outreach programs involving collaborative cross-cultural learning, such as paired individuals from different cultures serving as models, academic support for inclusion and learning, as well as creative modes of international workshops.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123471740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporate joint alliances, their children and cultural figurative intelligence","authors":"M. Yolles","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005311","url":null,"abstract":"Cultural intelligence is part of a process that is traditionally directed towards adaptive learning. However, it has another important component frequently forgotten, that of creative learning. Here, we adopt the context of international joint alliance development where partners in a joint alliance are seen as parents, and their joint venture offspring is a child company. We then adopt agency theory to explain that cultural intelligence is not an adequate term, rather adopting the replacement term that is cultural figurative intelligence. The concept of figurative intelligence arose with Piaget and represents a network of processes that facilitate the creation of new knowledge that, when coupled Vygotsky's ideas, can explain how child corporations emerge and develop, and to the function of adaptation and innovation. A brief case study is provided that supports the theory.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134455672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating highly qualified migrants: allowing a personal narrative to set future research directions","authors":"Aida Hajro","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005308","url":null,"abstract":"Using a unique case history of a highly qualified migrant family pushed from its country of origin due to war, I elucidate the emotional, cultural, societal and situation-specific challenges that its members faced in their new country of destination. I then link their stories to the current literature in the field of migration studies and formulate several avenues for future research. By allowing narrative theory to guide the field, I make a contribution to the current discourse and formulate questions that truly matter.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124389722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging gaps - effective links","authors":"Hirut Grossberger, S. Binder, F. Michelberger","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2017.10005316","url":null,"abstract":"Children by virtue of their curiosity about facts and phenomena, usually ask 'why and how' questions. This important behaviour in children who want to learn about the world was actively used in the project 'bridging gaps'. The aim of this research project was to foster the integration process as well as raise enthusiasm for science and technology among children and youngsters. As a strategy for cross-cultural intelligence, 'the bridge' was on the one hand used from a technical point of view and on the other hand as a symbol for socialisation. This was achieved by integrating schools into the project with a high proportion of children and youth with an immigration background. The intensive collaborative work with different class levels in various schools made it possible for researchers, some themselves with an immigration background, to be representative role models. With this approach, school children received impressions of both the technical and social aspects inherent in the concept of 'the bridge'.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114546926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}