Cross-cultural research diary: a personal odyssey
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Rosalie L. Tung | This paper sheds light on how the environment I grew up in engendered my interest in cross-cultural research. Each and every project that I have undertaken in my career – from expatriates to ex-host country nationals, cross- and intra... | 9 - 13 |
Research on cultures: how to use it in training?
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Gert Jan Hofstede | This article targets researchers who use culture as a control variable and trainers or consultants who use it when they speak about leadership, communication, management or other aspects of working life. It briefly sketches the state of the... | 14 - 21 |
Incoherent culture
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Brendan McSweeney | Culture is implicitly defined in most national cultural and multi-cultural studies as coherent. Each culture is supposed to be a holistic contradiction-free pattern, creating and sustaining uniform and enduring practices. This paper, whilst... | 22 - 27 |
Diversity, Darwin and democracy
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Slawomir J. Magala | The concept of diversity should be disentangled from the |neodarwinist| interpretations, liberated from close affinities with the equally ambiguous concept of |identity| and become more |relational| and |socialised| in order to become a rob... | 28 - 33 |
Corporate culture: what do we know and where do we go from here?
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Aida Hajro | The aim is to trigger a discussion about developments in the field of corporate culture and to stress the needs and directions of further research. Two major questions are considered: |What do we know about the relationship between corporat... | 34 - 41 |
Cross-cultural competence and management – setting the stage
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Gerhard Fink, Wolfgang Mayrhofer | At start up of our new journal we provide a frame of reference supporting reflections on the domain of cross-cultural competence and management and on future research. Referring to basic epistemological and ontological considerations, the a... | 42 - 65 |
The linguistic shift in cross-cultural studies: culture in discourse
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Marie-Therese Claes | Conceptions of cultural communication vary according to how broadly |culture| is defined and how much explanatory power it is attributed. The majority of research into intercultural communication is conducted in the framework of behavioural... | 66 - 76 |
The contribution of autophotography for cross-cultural knowledge transfer
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Frank Bruck, Astrid Kainzbauer | This paper introduces the use of autophotography in cross-cultural research and describes the possibilities of knowledge transfer using the research output directly in cultural training settings. Autophotography is a method used to compare ... | 77 - 96 |
Culture shock and its perception by sojourners in the USA: an explorative study
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Diana Petkova | This paper presents the results of an intercultural study done at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA in the period September 2006 to February 2007 when 23 informants from 17 countries were interviewed face-to-face and recorded ... | 97 - 115 |
Editorial Practitioner|s Corner: EJCCM and SIETAR
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Ildiko Polyak, Jonathan Levy | This article presents SIETAR Europa and the authors| ideas concerning the future of the Practitioner|s Corner. SIETAR Europa was originally founded in 1991 as the European chapter of the International SIETAR, the world|s largest interdiscip... | 116 - 118 |
Cultural standard research and its implications for managing multinational teams: cooperation with Croatians and Slovenes – the Austrian perspective
DOI: 10.1504/EJCCM.2009.026728 | Sylvia Meierewert | This article examines the impact of different cultural variables in the particular contexts of Austrian, Croatian and Slovenian task groups. Referring to the concept of taxonomy of team processes developed by Marks et al. (2001), I analysed... | 119 - 135 |
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