Cosmopolitans

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-78
Author(s):  
Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Third ◽  
Global Nomad ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Final Consideration ◽  
Cross Cultural Management

As the final chapter expanding upon the new agentic, reflexive subjectivities arising from transnational migration, the focus herein is on cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitans. The first section of the chapter underscores the main tenets of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitans and thereby offers insights into the various ways this notion has been theorized. This sets the stage for empirical examples of cosmopolitanism in research that takes shape at the intersections of global business, work and difference. These examples challenge the notion of cosmopolitanism as referencing people who have a global mindset and are ‘citizens of everywhere and nowhere’ approaches which dominate cross-cultural management and examinations of difference in a global context. The third section focuses on the ways ‘global nomad’ as a particular example of cosmopolitanism challenges financialized notions of diversity in the context of organizations and neo-liberalism. In concluding this chapter, the final consideration is around the linkage of cosmopolitanism to an ethics of difference that embodies the epistemic, social and material aspects of transnational being and belonging. By addressing these concerns, the chapter offers new directions in relation to the quest for theorizing and accounting for various forms of difference in relation to people and work.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Work And Organizations ◽  
Cross Cultural Management

The introduction provides the reader with a context for transnational migration studies and its importance for studying people, work and organizations today. Starting out referencing contemporary trends, such as Brexit, the election of Trump and general rise of anti-immigrant, righ-wing regimes globally, the introductory chapter lays the foundation for a transnational migration perspective. Key ideas from transnational migration studies, an interdisciplinary field born out of sociology, are explained and their relevance for theorizing and studying difference in the context of globally-mobile people made explicit. The chapter then outlines how existing approaches to the study of people and work under these new times and in the context of mobility has taken shape in the management, focusing explicitly on diversity and cross-cultural management areas. These two scholarly areas represent the dominant approach to the study of people and difference albeit there have been critical interjections into static notions of identity, place and work in these areas. Altogether, the introduction lays the foundation for the book in terms of the need for and importance of transnational migration studies as a much-needed theoretical approach for rethinking identity, difference and work in the diversity and cross-cultural management fields.

Research in Russia reveals lack of transferable cross-cultural management (CCM) skills in young graduates

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 35-37
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Business Context ◽  
Process Stage ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Cross Cultural Management

Purpose Researchers in Russia wanted to find out if education-job mismatches affect recruitment in the international employment market. Design/methodology/approach There was a three-stage process. Stage One involved organizing interviewer-led focus groups with 18 Russian recruiters. In Stage Two the authors carried out face-to-face interviews with 17 CCM research-informed teachers and 11 recruiters. Finally, the third part of the study was an interactive seminar with 297 graduate job seekers in Russia. Findings The main issue was the overwhelming lack of transferable cross-cultural management (CCM) skills, especially among young graduates. The authors interviewed university teachers who felt that graduate job seekers lacked a wide range of basic skills and knowledge. Meanwhile, they interviewed recruiters who were concerned about the inability of graduates to apply their knowledge in a global business context. The recruiters were also critical of the teachers for not supplying graduates with the right soft skill set. Originality/value Research in the field has been rare, especially in Russia. The results point the way forward for academic researchers, but also practicing teachers

Imagining a Transnational Future for Research on Differences

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Organizational Scholarship ◽  
New Research

This chapter examines offers new directions for organizational scholarship based on the key concepts derived from transnational migration studies and applied to notions of self, culture and work. Fundamentally, transnational modes of thinking and analyzing require us to consider the composition and coming together of society rather than a reflection of the boundaries/boundedness of nation-states. They provide insights as to what citizenship means beyond an accident of birth and turn our gaze to the ways in which historical conjunctures impact contemporary economic arrangements, political debates and cultural institutions. For organization scholars who want to study diversity and cross-cultural management and attend to difference, transnational modes provide insights as to new ways of understanding people in the form of mobile subjectivities and move us to consider the question of who/what is the subject of management research? By relying on new ontologies and epistemologies available from a transnational migration studies framework, the chapter offers insights about how the social world is being made and remade and the consequences of such action and intention for the (organizational) lives of people around the world. In doing so, it opens up vistas for new research questions, agendas, and approaches to guide organizational scholars and scholarship.

Mobile Methodologies

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Over Time

This chapter starts off by noting that transnational approaches contribute a multiscalar understanding and analysis of mobile subjectivities such that attending them to them requires moving beyond comparative lenses. To clarify, a transnational paradigm does not discount the importance of the nation-state but rather, holds is as a precarious achievement and construction made possible by discourses of difference and belonging. Yet the nation-state and thus, ‘cultural values’ as reflections of nation-states cannot be the starting point for an analysis that aims to understand subjectivities that move across scales and the specificity of experiences associated with mobile encounters. This chapter provides examples of work that can attend to these issues under the notion of “mobile methodologies”. Under this approach, researchers move with the research object/subject over time, place and space as needed to understand the assembling of transnational lives, experiences and practices. The chapter contrasts these approaches with existing works within diversity and cross-cultural management research that adopt comparative and static methods that are unable to attend to mobile subjects. In sum, the chapter offers critique and new directions for methodologies that can be used to study transnational subjects.

The Effects of Culture on Planning and Technology in the Internationalisation of Medellín’s SMEs

2013 ◽  
pp. 365-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Bustamante
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Medium Enterprises

As an emerging market, global business is of greatest importance in Colombia and several efforts are implemented to keep up with the international competitive environment. However, these efforts should be accompanied with the development of entrepreneurial capabilities in a wide range of ambits, among others, cross-cultural management. This chapter describes cultural influences in internationalisation activities of Medellin’s small and medium enterprises based on original research results using descriptive multi-case methods within five companies and documentary review of business publications. It starts with an overview of the Colombian SME and cross-cultural management theories; then, the cultural influences on planning and internationalisation are listed, suggesting that systematic plans during internationalisation are not followed and technology tools are not properly seized due to management styles, a changing business environment, and small education levels.

The Effects of Culture on Planning and Technology in the Internationalisation of Medellín’s SMEs

2014 ◽  
pp. 758-776
Author(s):  
Luis Bustamante
Keyword(s):  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Medium Enterprises

As an emerging market, global business is of greatest importance in Colombia and several efforts are implemented to keep up with the international competitive environment. However, these efforts should be accompanied with the development of entrepreneurial capabilities in a wide range of ambits, among others, cross-cultural management. This chapter describes cultural influences in internationalisation activities of Medellin’s small and medium enterprises based on original research results using descriptive multi-case methods within five companies and documentary review of business publications. It starts with an overview of the Colombian SME and cross-cultural management theories; then, the cultural influences on planning and internationalisation are listed, suggesting that systematic plans during internationalisation are not followed and technology tools are not properly seized due to management styles, a changing business environment, and small education levels.

scholarly journals Culture and Managers in a Globalised World

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Charalampos Giousmpasoglou ◽  
Evangelia Marinakou
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
What Works ◽  
Management Function ◽  
International Human Resources ◽  
International Human Resources Management ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
Definition Of

The dynamic nature of the management function in global business today and the realisation that what works effectively in one country may not be as efficient in another has led management scholars and practising managers in continuous efforts to enhance their understanding of this environment and its effects to managers. This chapter explores management across cultures. The discussion starts with the origin and definition of cross cultural management; then it is focused on the study of the International Human Resources Management (IHRM). The final part discusses the profile of the international managers and the competencies needed to cope with the multiple challenges they are faced with in overseas assignments.

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