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Andri Georgiadou, Lecturer, Department of Management Leadership and Organisation, Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Phone: +44(0) 1707 284857, e-mail: a.georgiadou@herts.ac.uk

Professor Michàlle Mor Barak, Professor and Director of the Ph.D. Program, Lenore Stein-Wood and William S. Wood Professor of Social Work and Business in a Global Society School of Social Work & Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (USC), Phone: +1 213-740-2002, e-mail: morbarak@usc.edu

Stream Outline

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]" ― Socrates

Literature highlights that the ever increasing supranationalism, according to which governmental and educational policies are established, challenges the territorial identities of the individual nations (Modood, 2007). The cultural boundaries are amended and overlap towards creating a "third space", where natives and immigrants develop multiple or hybrid identities (Bhabba, 1995; Smith and Leavy, 2008). International business students, being immigrants, disclaim their one-dimensional identity, and cultivate ethno-national, ethno-regional, ethno-racial identities, within a multicultural learning environment that endeavours to foster diversity awareness and respect.

This stream therefore, explores the utilisation of the existing theories associated with promulgating diversity, representative of today's society and raises the main question of how hybridity and international business students' hybrid identities can promote or impede the promotion of diversity and solidarity.

This stream invites theoretically informed papers, empirically based ones as well as research posters from a range of disciplines that explore the nature of hybridity and its relationship with diversity, the impact on individuals (i.e. conflict, performance, satisfaction) and the institutional level of analysis (i.e. class climate, culture, evaluation practices). Moreover, papers could explore the identification of those activities that can be entered into force so as to effectively implement a pedagogic approach that promotes solidarity and inclusion.

Possible themes include

Conceptual approaches to hybridity; negotiating difference through hybrid identities; creating action learning environments: simulating real-world hybridity related issues to empower solutions; business education in a hybrid classroom; identity and cultural diversity; international business students and their lived experiences; the illusion of identity and its role on creating inclusive environments; identity and value in contemporary business environments.

Keywords

Diversity, hybrid identities, international business students, international employees

Important dates

•        Abstract/Developmental/full paper submission: March 1, 2015 on http://www.edi-conference.org 
  
•        Response to authors (acceptance / rejection): April 15, 2015
  
•        Deadline for full papers and best paper nominations and submission of best papers to the relevant associated journal (as agreed by submitter): May 18, 2015.

References 

• Bhabha, H.K. (1994). The Location of Culture. London and New York: Routledge.
  
• Cornelius, N., Wallace, J., & Tassabehji, R. (2007). An analysis of corporate social responsibility, corporate identity and ethics teaching in business schools. Journal of Business Ethics, 76(1), 117-135.
  
• Earley, C. P. & Mosakowski, E. (2000). Creating hybrid team cultures: An empirical test of transnational team functioning. Academy of Management Journal, 43(1), 26-49.
  
• Gutiérrez, K.D., Baquedano‐López, P. & Tejeda, C. (1999) Rethinking diversity: Hybridity and hybrid language practices in the third space. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 6(4), 286-303.
  
• Kalra, V., Kaur, R., & Hutnyk, J. (2005). Diaspora and hybridity. Sage.
  
• Kraidy, M. (2005). Hybridity, or the cultural logic of globalization. Temple University Press.
  
• Maalouf, A. (1998) Les identités Meurtrières. Ed. Paris, Grasset.
  
• Modood, T. (2007) Multiculturalism. A Civic Idea. Cambridge, Polity.
  
• Mor Barak, M.E. (2014)  Managing Diversity:  Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace, (3^rd Edition).  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  
• Smith, K.E.I. & Leavy, P. (2008). Hybrid Identities. Theoretical and Empirical Examinations (eds). Leiden and Boston: Brill.
  

Andri G. Georgiadou