Colleagues,
First, I hope you don't mind me re-adjusting the subject of our discussion...I think it has well moved on by now beyond the initial queries about the participants in the IMD symposium.
Secondly, in my view, being 'international' should not be looked at as a binary situation; that is, either you are or you aren't one. Obviously, we can agree that there is a continuum here or a degree of intensity of sharing this attribute.
Lastly, I would submit that the extensive criteria list suggested by Gernot may relate more to being 'multicultural' and that the latter concept is not necessarily the same as being 'international'. Applying the approach of 'degrees', we may think of someone who has had some work experience in more than one country as having a degree of 'internationality', but to regard one as multicultural we would expect a deeper level transformation, such that involves internalisation of more than one culture into one's identity.
Cheers,
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Jacob Eisenberg, Ph.D.
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From: International Management Division Discussion [mailto:IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Wilberding, Kyle W
Sent: 10 May 2006 13:25
To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: Response to concerns over USAers on IM Division Consortium panel
Gernot Bäurle & IM Division Consortium:
How many of the following requirements do you fulfill? If you do meet your own requirements...do you think these conditions (you fulfilling your own requirements) might have influenced your decision on what should be included in such a list? With that said, I think your question is really two questions: 1) What does it mean to be internationally experienced and 2) What does it mean to have an international perspective. It appears to me that it is debatable whether or not these "requirements" are inevitably the same for each of these questions.
From: International Management Division Discussion on behalf of Gernot Bäurle
Sent: Tue 5/9/2006 3:35 PM
To: IMD-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
Subject: Re: Response to concerns over USAers on IM Division Consortium panel
With my comment I would like to move away from where this discussion
originally started. I trust that the doctoral consortium will be
beneficial for the participants and I would be happy if I could attend
it (although I am not a PhD student). Instead, I would like to rise the
question of what it means to be internationally experienced or to have
an international perspective.
From my perspective and experience it is necessary
- to speak at least 2 languages apart from your native one
- to read the political and/or academic press also from these 2 language
areas
- to have lived at least 3 to 4 years continuously in one foreign
country while being exposed to everyday life there and in addition to
have worked and lived in other countries for extended periods of time
(of at least several uninterrupted months) - provided the person is
open-minded about his/her unknown environment and is actively engaged in it
I think only then a person goes through a transformation that allows her
or him to question his or her cultural and academic background and views
and to (partly) see the world from the perspective of another political,
scientific or management culture.
I have to admit that what I claim here is not based on research but
rather on experience.
I am looking forward to reading your views on this,
Gernot Bäurle
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