Cross Cultural & Strategic Management: Volume 24 Issue 1

The upside of cultural differences: Towards a more balanced treatment of culture in cross-cultural management research

Günter K. Stahl, Christof Miska, Hyun-Jung Lee, Mary Sully De Luque

The purpose of this paper is to encourage scholars to look at commonly considered phenomena in international business and cross-cultural research in new ways and to theorize and…

Cross-cultural research and positive organizational scholarship

Kim Cameron

In view of the emphasis in cross-cultural research on negative factors such as cultural misfit, cultural distance, and the liability of foreignness, the purpose of this paper is…

The double-edged sword of cultural distance in international alliances: How perceived cultural distance influences trust and task discourse to drive new product development performance

Robin Pesch, Ricarda B. Bouncken

While previous studies have primarily assumed dysfunctional effects of cultural distance in joint ventures and M&A, this paper elucidates from a positive organizational…

Creating the asset of foreignness: Schrödinger’s cat and lessons from the Nissan revival

Jusuke J.J. Ikegami, Martha Maznevski, Masataka Ota

This paper challenges the assumption in cross-cultural research of liability of foreignness (LOF). The literature review demonstrates that LOF comes from pressures for…

Facilitating culturally diverse groups with visual templates in collaborative systems: Increasing structuration to improve precision

Sabrina Bresciani, Alice Comi

The use of visual templates has proven instrumental in supporting group meetings. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether visual templates enable culturally diverse groups…

Thinking style across cultures: an interview with Richard Nisbett

Hyun-Jung Lee

The purpose of this paper is to gain some insights from a leading scholar of the cross-cultural cognitive social psychology field on how cultural differences are viewed…

Corporate social responsibility and firms’ cost of equity: how does culture matter?

Marie-Louise Matthiesen, Astrid Juliane Salzmann

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and cost of equity in an international context assessing the moderating…

Cross-cultural management education rebooted: Creating positive value through scientific mindfulness

Joerg Dietz, Stacey R. Fitzsimmons, Zeynep Aycan, Anne Marie Francesco, Karsten Jonsen, Joyce Osland, Sonja A. Sackmann, Hyun-Jung Lee, Nakiye A. Boyacigiller

Graduates of cross-cultural management (CCM) courses should be capable of both tackling international and cross-cultural situations and creating positive value from the diversity…

Components and process in social science explanation: is there a role for Yin-Yang balancing

Gordon Redding

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to consider the proposal by Peter Li about developing an inclusive research paradigm bringing together eastern and western research…

Cooperating or competing in three languages: cultural accommodation or alienation?

Vasiliki Gargalianou, Diemo Urbig, Arjen van Witteloostuijn

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of using foreign languages on cooperative behavior in a prisoner’s dilemma setting. The cultural accommodation hypothesis suggests…