Prior research on global virtual teams (GVTs) identifies ‘cultural discontinuity’ as a salient boundary that needs to be bridged for better performance. Grounding the study in organizational discontinuity theory (ODT), we propose cultural intelligence (CQ) as one of the modalities through which cultural discontinuities in GVTs could possibly be bridged. Situating the discussion, in transactiona...

There are consistent individual differences in human intelligence, attributable to a single 'general intelligence' factor, g. The evolutionary basis of g and its links to social learning and culture remain controversial. Conflicting hypotheses regard primate cognition as divided into specialized, independently evolving modules versus a single general process. To assess how processes underlying ...

We examine relationships between Big Five personality and the four-factor model of cultural intelligence (CQ)—metacognitive CQ, cognitive CQ, motivational CQ, and behavioral CQ. Hierarchical regression analyses conducted on data from 338 business undergraduates—after controlling for age, gender, and years of experience in interacting with people from other cultures—show significant links betwee...

In the current world scenario, we witness more military forces involved in peace support (PSOs) and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operations and less in conventional warfare. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UN DPKO) website indicates that the post-Cold War decades have seen a big jump in the number of such operations worldwide. Of the 60 operations...

Much attention has been devoted to challenges related to ERP implementation. However, there is a wealth of papers that are focusing on cultural issues related to ERP depending the country they are implemented. The objective of this article is to analyze and to illustrate how project managers achieve ERP implementation whereas users face cultural changes concerning the way new tasks and business...

Digital ecosystems transcend the traditional, rigorously defined, collaborative environments from centralised, distributed or hybrid models into an open, flexible, domain cluster, demand-driven, interactive environment. A digital ecosystem is a new-networked architecture and collaborative environment that addresses the weakness of client-server, peer-to-peer, Grid and web services. In this keyn...

The current research investigated cultural differences in emotional intelligence among top officers on board vessels of multicultural maritime companies. We found that Southeast Asian officers scored higher than European officers on the total Emotional Intelligence scale. When separating the EQ scale in its facets, higher scores for Asian officers were found on "Utilization of emotions", "Handl...

one of the major sources of psychology in the field of teaching english as foreign language in iranian universities is a book named the psychology of the language learner: individual differences in second language acquisition written by zoltan dornyei. the book was first published in 2005 and was later revised in 2015 and published by routledge. this study thus aims to analyze this book critica...