International human resource management has become a mature discipline in the last 30
years. As a sub-discipline of social sciences, international human resource management is …

Paradigms are basic assumptions about how social reality is perceived, understood and
explained. Whereas most research is based on a single paradigm, few empirical papers …

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the concept of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty,
complexity and ambiguity) in the field of cross-cultural management. Design/methodology …

This paper examines differentiations between beneficiaries in voluntary organizations.
Drawing on the writings of Ahmed and Bauman, the paper suggests that beneficiaries are …

While linguistic difference has been identified as an organizational source of disadvantage
for migrants, the construction of language requirements in relation to which these differences …

Two important streams of cross-cultural management (CCM) studies define culture in terms
of either values or meanings. These are the positivist and interpretivist streams (see …

Broadly speaking, critical cross-cultural management (CCM) research is a stream of studies
that examines the various ways in which power permeates intercultural situations and …

Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, nationalist and rightist movements were on the
rise in many parts of the world. Far-right parties for example gained support throughout …

There is no country in the world where you just have poor people. There are always also rich
people. Poverty is inexorably tied to inequality. Inequality suggests social stratification …

Immigration has changed the demographics of Norway remarkably over the last 50 years as
it has in many other countries, and immigrants are working their way into society and into the …