The centrality of communication in international business (IB) is undeniable; yet our
understanding of the phenomenon is partially constrained by a cross-cultural comparative …

International human resource management (IHRM) has been a rapidly changing area of
specialist and generalist practice. It is also a lively and growing academic subject, having …

The understanding of culture in international management (IM) research has often been
approached from two different theoretical orientations. One stream of research has proposed …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to focus on methodological development of research into
the influence of culture: the use of cross‐cultural, multidisciplinary and multi‐method …

While organizational scholars have shown a sustained interest in cultural processes in
transnational contexts, the dominant approach in cross-cultural research has overlooked …

What does the consideration of race, ethnicity or sexual preferences have to do with cross-
cultural management? In the 1980s, intercultural communication studies started to see the …

East and Southeast Asian worldviews are distinctly different from those of the West.
Westerners and Asians construct their environments differently, not least because they …

The biblical story of Babel tells the story of why the human race was scattered over the face
of the earth, divided, dislocated, and incapable of communicating; we have been trying to …

Calls are repeatedly made in cross-cultural management and International Business Studies
requesting multiparadigm research. However present multiparadigm strategies and …

When speaking of culture in this call, we refer to any processes of collective identity through
which individuals construct relative difference between social self and other (Lawler, 2008) …