| Ambidextrous Knowledge Sharing within R&D Teams and Multinational Enterprise Performance: The Moderating Effects of Cultural Distance in Uncertainty Avoidance |
2020 |
361 |
Current debates on organizational learning distinguish between two distinct and mutually exclusive learning modes: exploration and exploitation. This paper deals with the concept of ambidextrous routines in knowledge management (KM) initiatives. Spec... |
| Antecedents and Outcomes of Flow Experience of MOOC Users |
2020 |
505 |
Purpose: This paper aims to develop and empirically test a model of relationships between antecedents and outcomes of flow experience of users of massive open online courses (MOOC). Design/methodology/approach: The researchers surveyed individuals pr... |
| Beyond Hofstede: Challenging the Ten Commandments of Cross-Cultural Research |
2009 |
7646 |
Culture is a pervasive construct. A Google search for "culture" provides over half a billion hits, while the Yahoo! search engine generates a figure over two billion, which is more than for other such popular terms as politics, war, the environment, ... |
| Central and Eastern European Experience of the X-Culture Project in Teaching International Management and Cross-Cultural Communication |
2018 |
101 |
Objective: Our paper examines the X-Culture challenges and experience through the eyes of professors and students alike and draws attention to the significance of such projects in international business practices in addition to examining the key infl... |
| Changing the Face of International Business Education: The X-Culture Project. |
2012 |
3919 |
Studying International Business in a classroom is a bit like learning how to swim on a grass field. Even if the instructor provides detailed explanations and uses technologically advanced media, the students will not fully grasp the concept of swimmi... |
| Competition matters! Self-efficacy, effort, and performance in crowdsourcing teams |
2019 |
297 |
Advances in information technologies (IT) have enabled organizations to seek solutions for their business problems from beyond their own workforce through digital crowdsourcing platforms. In the most common form of crowdsourcing, teams that offer sol... |
| Cross-cultural training: History, developments, future directions |
2020 |
585 |
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the days when employees worked in the same location with local people for extended periods of time are long gone (Gilson et al., 2015; Glikson & Erez, 2019; Lukic & Vracar, 2018). Today, a vast number... |
| Crosscultural Differences in Perceptions of Justice; Consequences for Academia |
2008 |
5699 |
Most universities around the world have experienced an increase in international student enrollment. Cultural diversity may be greatly beneficial, but if not managed properly it may lead to problems in the classroom and beyond. The challenges associa... |
| Cultural intelligence and work-related outcomes: A meta-analytic examination of joint effects and test of incremental predictive validity |
2021 |
177 |
This meta-analysis provides a synthesis of 70 studies on the relationship between cultural intelligence (CQ) and six work-related outcomes. By applying the mutualism perspective and using commonality analysis, we propose a theoretical perspective and... |
| Cultural values, emotional intelligence, and conflict handling styles: A global study |
2016 |
1383 |
While previous research has identified cultural values and emotional intelligence as central determinants of conflict handling styles, little is known about the mechanism through which cultural values impact individuals’ preferences for specific conf... |
| Culture as a Consequence: A Multilevel Multivariate Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Individual and Country Characteristics on Work-Related Cultural Values |
2010 |
4017 |
Culture as a consequence is a neglected topic. Addressing this, we explore what factors are related to and potentially shape culture, what explains cultural variations within countries, and what the relationship is between cultural values at the indi... |
| The development and validation of the Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient |
2016 |
3787 |
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new instrument for measuring cultural intelligence in the business context (BCIQ). Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the process of the conceptualization of the model and the develop... |
| Direct Versus Indirect Compensation: Balancing Value and Cost in Total Compensation |
2012 |
3080 |
The effect of compensation on employee performance, satisfaction and organizational commitment is hard to overstate. Designing an effective compensation structure may be a daunting task, in particular with respect of finding a balance between direct ... |
| Diverse effects of diversity: Disaggregating effects of diversity in global virtual teams |
2019 |
759 |
Global Virtual Team (GVT) member diversity provides many advantages but also poses many challenges. Diversity comes in different forms that each has different effects on GVT dynamics and performance. Past research typically explored the effect of onl... |
| Does Country Equate with Culture? Beyond Geography in the Search for Cultural Boundaries |
2016 |
5143 |
Traditionally, cultures have been treated as though they reside exclusively within, or perfectly overlap with countries. Indeed, the terms ‘‘country’’ and ‘‘culture’’ are often used interchangeably. As evidence mounts for substantial within-country c... |
| Effects of Cultural Diversity on In-Class Communication and Student Project Team Dynamics: Creating Synergy in the Diverse Classroom |
2007 |
7940 |
Most colleges and universities around the world have experienced an increasing cultural
diversification of their student body. Foreign student enrollment has been especially high in North American, West European and Australian institutions of higher... |
| Examining the Impact of Culture‘s Consequences: A Three-Decade, Multi-Level, Meta-Analytic Review of Hofstede‘s Cultural Value Dimensions |
2010 |
27741 |
Using data from 598 studies representing over 200,000 individuals, we meta-analyzed the relationship between G. Hofstede‘s (1980a) original 4 cultural value dimensions and a variety of organizationally relevant outcomes. First, values predict outcome... |
| Family involvement in publicly traded firms and firm performance: a meta-analysis |
2018 |
1416 |
Purpose:This study aims to investigate the effects of family involvement in corporations on firm performance. It remains unclear whether family-owned companies, or companies with other forms of family involvement in the corporate governance, perform ... |
| Global Social Tolerance Index and multi-method country rankings sensitivity |
2016 |
7240 |
Social tolerance refers to the extent of recognition and acceptance of differences, willingness to grant equal rights, and refraining from openly intolerant attitudes. Utilizing World Value Survey (WVS) data (56 countries, 83,000 usable respondents),... |
| Global virtual team communication, coordination, and performance across three peer feedback strategies |
2019 |
1367 |
Global virtual teams (GVTs) are faced with numerous communication and coordination difficulties. This study examined whether peer feedback, implemented via a quasi-experiment, strengthened linkages between GVT communication, coordination, and perform... |
| Half a Century of Measuring Culture: Approaches, Challenges, Limitations, and Suggestions Based on the Analysis of 121 Instruments for Quantifying Culture |
2009 |
9292 |
After examining 121 instruments for measuring culture, we provide a historical overview and analyze how culture has been operationalized over the last half a century. Our study focuses on the topics of culture definition, dimensionality of culture mo... |
| The Happy Culture: A Theoretical, Meta-Analytic, and Empirical Review of the Relationship Between Culture and Wealth and Subjective Well-Being |
2017 |
682 |
Do cultural values enhance financial and subjective well-being (SWB)? Taking a multidisciplinary approach, we meta-analytically reviewed the field, found it thinly covered, and focused on individualism. In counter, we collected a broad array of indiv... |
| Improving national cultural indices using a longitudinal meta-analysis of Hofstede's dimensions |
2012 |
4905 |
This meta-analysis offers an updated set of national cultural scores along the dimensions of Hofstede's cultural framework. The meta-analytic national cultural indices have two advantages. First, they are based on a larger and more representative sam... |
| Information Technology (IT) enabled crowdsourcing: A conceptual framework |
2020 |
425 |
IT-enabled crowdsourcing is defined as technology-enabled outsourcing of tasks through an open call to the masses via the internet. Crowdsourcing is an IT artifact that has gone beyond the traditional boundaries of an organization to a much broader c... |
| International collaboration experience: Using multi-country student collaboration projects to enhance learning and faculty research |
2013 |
195 |
In this chapter, we discuss our experiences with the X-Culture project. X-Culture is a large-scale international student collaboration project designed to enhance learning in international business (IB) and related courses through participative learn... |
| The moderating role of culture in social media-based spatial imagery, consumer xenocentrism, and word-of-mouth for global virtual teams |
2019 |
534 |
This study investigates how culture moderates the interrelationships among social spatial imagery (SSI), consumer xenocentrism (C-XEN), electronic word-of-mouth (eWoM), and overall project performance for global virtual teams (GVTs) in social media n... |
| Negative practice–value correlations in the GLOBE data: Unexpected findings, questionnaire limitations and research directions. |
2010 |
4181 |
The study of culture and cultural values continues to be hotly debated among cross-cultural researchers worldwide. Starting with the seminal work of Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck, and Hofstede, and continuing with more recent efforts, researchers have con... |
| Opposite Ends of the Same Stick? Multi-Method Test of the Dimensionality of Individualism and Collectivis |
2013 |
2671 |
The construct of individualism–collectivism (IND-COL) has become the definitive standard in cross-cultural psychology, management, and related fields. It is also among the most controversial, in particular, with regard to the ambiguity of its dimensi... |
| A Process-Based Explanation of the Psychic Distance Paradox: Evidence from Global Virtual Teams |
2014 |
2535 |
Previous research has found evidence of a counter-intuitive positive relationship between psychic distance and performance, which has been labeled the “psychic distance paradox”. However, there is a dearth of literature explaining the causal mechanis... |
| Quantitative Predictive Capacity of Human Development Index in Wireless Telephony Operations |
2013 |
282 |
The present study explores effects of human development (as measured by the human development index, or HDI) on the wireless telephony operations. The novelty and contributions of the paper are: 1) HDI, as a proxy for human development, can be a pred... |
| A Review of Organizational Research on Acculturation from a Nonwork-Work Spillover Perspective: Content Analysis and Future Research Guidelines |
2021 |
20 |
Acculturation has played an important role in understanding the behaviours, intergroup relations and adjustment of cultural minorities in their mainstream national culture. Additionally, organizational research has shown that acculturation is associa... |
| Scale validation via quantifying item validity using the Dm index |
2010 |
1426 |
While most validity indices are based on total test scores, this paper describes a method for quantifying the construct validity. The approach is based on the item selection technique originally described by Piazza (1980). However, Piazza’s P2 index ... |
| State of the art themes in cross-cultural communication research: A systematic and meta-analytic review |
2014 |
2421 |
Based on a meta-analysis of 60 empirical studies, a systematic review and integrative analysis of the empirical research on the effects of cultural values on communication is provided. The most commonly stated hypotheses pertaining to the links betwe... |
| Straight from the horse’s mouth: Justifications and prevention strategies provided by free riders on global virtual teams |
2018 |
404 |
The study investigates the reasons for and ways to deal with free riding on Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) based on interviews with 77 documented “free-riders” themselves. Our unique sample, in contrast with more commonly-studied accounts from active te... |
| Three decades of research on national culture in the workplace: Do the differences still make a difference? |
2011 |
11786 |
At one time, national culture was primarily the concern of tourists and diplomats, having little to do with the workplace. In the latter part of the 20th century, there were a series of international policy changes in many Asian and Eastern European ... |
| Understanding the relationships between distances and herd behavior in online reviews: the moderating effects of hospitality experience |
2020 |
643 |
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the determinants of herd behavior in online hotel service evaluations, focusing on the cultural and geographic distance characteristics of customers. Design/methodology/approach: On the basis of 381,462 TripAdv... |
| Virtual Teams and International Business Teaching and Learning: The Case of the Global Enterprise Experience (GEE) |
2014 |
1534 |
The increasing importance of global virtual teams in business is reflected in the classroom by the increased adoption of activities that facilitate real-time cross-cultural interaction. This article documents the experience of students from two Colom... |
| Work-related acculturation: change in individual work-related cultural values following immigration |
2012 |
2104 |
The effects of culture in the workplace have been well documented. Because cultures vary across countries, business practices that are effective in some regions may not be effective in others. While cross-country cultural differences have been explor... |
| Working Across Boundaries: Current and Future Perspectives on Global Virtual Teams |
2019 |
1168 |
Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) are a commonplace in contemporary organizations, and an already established topic of research in international management. While we have a good understanding of advantages and challenges associated with this ubiquitous for... |
| The X-Culture Handbook of Collaboration and Problem Solving in Global Virtual Teams |
2022 |
818 |
According to a 2018 survey, 89 percent of "white-collar" workers at least occasionally work as members of global virtual teams. The percentage has likely increased during the COVID-19 pandemic as bans on international travel and the shifts to telewor... |
| X-Culture: an International Project in the Light of Experience Gained Over the Years (2010-2016) |
2016 |
863 |
The X-Culture project is an innovative modern form of experiential learning predominantly in International Management and International Business. Although experiential learning has some advantages, namely, developing cross-cultural competencies, cult... |