Checking just now for recent IM articles in Web of Science database, I found:
Title: The challenges of globalization in French Engineering and Management Schools: A multiperspectivist model for intercultural learning
Author(s): Gourves-Hayward A, Morace C alison.gourves@telecom-bretagne.eu, christophe.morace@ensieta.fr
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL RELATIONS Volume: 34 Issue: 3 Pages: 303-313 Published: MAY 2010
Abstract: In this article, we argue for the need for new pedagogical solutions in the elite French Graduate Schools of Engineering and Management, in order to deal with the challenges represented by globalization. Building on our interdisciplinary, intercultural research and teaching at the Ecole Superieure de Commerce, Bretagne Brest, and the Telecom Bretagne, in Brittany. France, we propose a research and teaching model based on a combination of "interity" (Demorgon, 2002). and a "third place" for language and intercultural learning (Kramsch, 1993) using a multiperspectivist approach (Demorgon, 2004a). After a detailed explanation of this interdisciplinary research framework, we report on our teaching design, where students have access to direct experience of conflict, consensus and mediation in order to promote intercultural learning. We then identify and analyze the complexity of an intercultural situation, or critical incident, from different perspectives, such as context, field, strategy, level, self-organization and oscillation between differing cultural dimensions, or what Demorgon terms "pre-adaptive antagonisms". Our analysis also takes into account evidence of the students' creation of "interity" and of their emerging "third places". Finally, we analyze a certain number of cultural constraints at a national, institutional and classroom level, which may impede the implementation of the experiential teaching design, before suggesting future improvements to our design.
Title: International Business Dynamics Drivers of Multinational Corporations' In-Country Economic Returns
Author(s): Bartkus VO, Davis JH vbartkus@nd.edu
Source: BUSINESS & SOCIETY Volume: 49 Issue: 2 Pages: 290-315 Published: JUN 2010
Abstract: Globalization of the world economy and proliferation of multinational corporations (MNCs) has dramatically affected the power balance among international actors. On one hand, MNCs have long influenced the states in which they operate, with the consequent erosion of state sovereignty. On the other, states directly affect MNCs, in effect becoming another factor of production in addition to the economist's traditional set of labor, land, and capital. This article introduces a theoretical model based on the interaction of the MNC, the local state, and the local market to predict and explain the economic returns that the MNC will earn on its investment in the local market.
Title: On improving the robustness of Asian management theories: Theoretical anchors in the era of globalization
Author(s): Bhagat RS, McDevitt AS, McDevitt I rbhagat@memphis.edu, amcdevitt@att.net, amcdevitt@att.net
Source: ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT Volume: 27 Issue: 2 Pages: 179-192 Published: JUN 2010
Abstract: A careful review of the history of research on global strategy and cross-cultural management reveals that considerable attention has been paid to the functioning of organizations located in the Asian context in comparison with their Western counterparts. While research in this tradition has generated some useful insights, there is a need for improving robustness of management theories that are applicable in the Asian context. In this paper, we advance a taxonomy of cross-cultural management theories and suggest methods of deriving research propositions well-grounded in the latest findings in cross-cultural research. It is suggested that robustness of management theories that are uniquely applicable to the Asia Pacific countries is best achieved by addressing the complex interplay of cultural variations found in these countries with globalization-related influences.
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