{"title":"The destabilising effect of ethical counter-narrative: a qualitative inquiry in a non-profit setting","authors":"Thomas G. Pittz","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2016.081217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2016.081217","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the destabilising effects of an ethically corrupt counter-narrative within a non-profit organisation through a longitudinal qualitative research approach. The research focuses on determining whether embedded organisational tendencies, unbeknownst and tacit within the organisation, unwittingly contribute to radical and revolutionary organisational change. The results suggest a refined taxonomy for describing destabilising organisational change and make practical contributions to the non-profit literature. Based on the results of the study and the integration with other theoretical contributions, applications for practice and an agenda for future research are proposed and discussed.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127603055","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":"When and how previous experience affects the stock market reaction to business combinations","authors":"P. Sánchez-Lorda, Esteban García-Canal","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052595","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyse to what extent previous experience of the firms affects the investors’ valuation of business combinations. We analyse two types of business combinations as alternative means to gain access to external strategic resources: strategic alliances and acquisitions. We point out that the previous experience of the companies in the management of business combinations will positively affect the abnormal returns of these operations. However, if the business combination supposes a diversification of the company, experience affects the investors’ valuation of acquisitions and alliances in a different fashion. An empirical study of the investors’ valuation of business combinations carried out by European telecom firms between 1990 and 2001 has confirmed these hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116598173","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":"Insights into the Indian cultural dimensions from the viewpoint of German operations managers","authors":"Amol Gore","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2021.10036807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2021.10036807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115842351","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":"Creating leadership minds for the digital VUCA world-sculpting functional perceptual architectures via cultural expertise","authors":"Birgit Breninger","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2021.10036630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2021.10036630","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126916298","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":"Culture-performance relationships in mergers and acquisition: the role of trust","authors":"Yaakov Weber, I. Drori, S. Tarba","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052603","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a theoretical framework for investigating mergers and acquisitions (M&As) performance through an interdisciplinary, multi-stage, and multi-level approach. Trust and human resource challenges during the integration process following a merger are explored to help explain the inconsistencies among empirical findings about the effects of cultural differences on M&A performance. It is proposed that in addition to culture clash, trust has a direct effect on acquired firm’s management attitudes and behaviours, thereby influencing post-merger success. We also elaborate on how trust acts to moderate the effects of culture clash in M&As, thus elucidating contradictory findings in the literature.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121310540","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":"Narratives, paradigms and change – the issue of relevance","authors":"G. Fink, M. Yolles","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052596","url":null,"abstract":"We show that dominant paradigms influence the relation between narratives and stories. Changes in stories require that paradigms change. Using cybernetic principles, we map the narrative change process across four modes of being. Mode 1 centres on stories that change incrementally. In Mode 2, dominant paradigms are challenged. A plurality of antenarratives with its accompanying cacophony of pro-, counter- and anti-stories indicate paradigmatic war. Mode 3 embraces crisis-narratives as paradigms bifurcate to either pass to their post-narrative demise, or return to Mode 1 with minor adaptations, or may reach Mode 4 to pass through a transformational process (transformation-narratives) that enables them to grasp new problem solutions. Understanding these processes is of importance because they illustrate that, depending on social forces, different narratives are relevant and influential at different times, and may only survive if they are also flexible enough to embrace new ideas and also find the interest of publishers.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"5 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126062049","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":"Perception of Luxury:: Idiosyncratic Russian Consumer Culture and Identity","authors":"H. Kaufmann, D. Vrontis, Yulia Manakova","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2012.052594","url":null,"abstract":"Russia becomes the prime mover of the luxury world market. Whereas most of the studies on luxury consumption focus on the context of Western countries, studies of the topic in Eastern European transition countries are still rare. This paper increases understanding as to the factors that explain luxury consumption of Russian consumers. As in transition countries, the identity of consumers is generally accepted to be in a state of flux, the research question refers to the extent Russian identity influences consumption of luxury. This paper applies a mixed quantitative and qualitative methodology approach and reveals that Russian luxury consumption differs from that of Western societies. Positive relationships between identity, status consumption, perceived quality, symbolic/status consumption and uniqueness were found and identity turned out to have a significant bearing on consumption of luxury goods in","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130962148","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 power of myth. The dialectics between 'elitism' and 'academism' in economic expert discourse","authors":"Jens Maesse","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2016.10002294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2016.10002294","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the impact of economic experts on society. Starting from a discourse-sociological approach, the paper investigates economic expert discourse at the interface between academia and society. Whereas idealistic-functionalist approaches emphasise the problem-solving character of economic expertise, this paper takes a critical-constructivist perspective. Here, social problems such as the 'financial crisis' as well as expert solutions are always seen as constructions which are based on complex social as well as discursive power relations. Not only knowledge but also myths, authority, interests and other factors play a role. Following this perspective, the paper outlines the role of academic excellence myths in economics for society in general and political discourses in particular. The nub of this contribution can be indicated as follows: the excellence orientation in economics has little to do with the inherent quality of academic work, it responds rather to external demands coming from society. 'Elitism' and 'academism' in economics are analysed as sources of political power and social legitimacy.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114523070","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":"Stays abroad and intercultural competence of students","authors":"Henrik Schreiber, Petia Genkova","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2021.10037059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2021.10037059","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121381832","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 potential of return migration as a resource for EU public diplomacy efforts: a case-study of New Zealand return migrants from the EU","authors":"N. Chaban, M. Holland, N. Smith","doi":"10.1504/EJCCM.2010.038764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/EJCCM.2010.038764","url":null,"abstract":"External construction of the European unity idea is an under-researched topic in EU scholarship. This paper explores the potential of return migration from the EU to third countries to the study and practice of EU public diplomacy and external relations. Attempting to conceptualise the phenomenon of return migration within theories of public diplomacy, this analysis focuses on a case-study of New Zealand (NZ) sojourners from the EU-27 and investigates their awareness and perceptions of the EU, compared with those of the NZ general public's views of the Union. The results of one case-study are presented – a purposive survey of EU perceptions among a particular focus-group. Ultimately, this research assesses the importance of returnees' experiences to the effective practice of EU public diplomacy and considers the importance of 'perceptions' studies in shaping Europe's interactions with the world.","PeriodicalId":108773,"journal":{"name":"European J. of Cross-cultural Competence and Management","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127118355","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}