This article discusses the importance of firm-level cultural intelligence in the context of international business ventures such as offshoring. We identify the recent movement toward global delivery models in offshoring ventures as the strategic imperative for offshoring partners to acquire and develop firm-level cultural intelligence. Drawing on Earley and Ang’s (2003) conceptualization of cul...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to better understand how cross-cultural dynamics can be managed effectively by individuals in IT offshore outsourcing relationships. Design / methodology / approach – The research approach was an in-depth exploratory single-case study. The concept of cultural intelligence formed our theoretical foundations. A total of 15 semi-structured interviews were con...

Problem statement: Transformational leadership is one of the modern ideas in the field of organizational leadership. On the other hand the ability to communicate with employees and understand the cultural differences between them in a multicultural environment is One of the key skills that managers need to them in the nowadays organizations. These skills are introducedas cultural intelligence i...

Disregarding the cultural intelligence which is considered as a foundation in various aspects of human development, can lead students to lead students to develop unevenly. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the level of cultural intelligence, Islamic Azad University, the East Mazandaran province. The method of this study was a survey and the statistical population of 13,917 person...

cultural diversities can be considered as a treat as well as an opportunity which increasingly has effects on success of those organizations that are working in world scale.previous studies in this relation have been focused on intercultural or cultural values that do not provide for managers recognition of the needed competencies to success. in this research, through studying a new multidimens...

Social media have become ubiquitous in our lives. To meet with the calls to examine social media usage in cross-cultural contexts, the study conducted a longitudinal survey to explore bilateral relationships between social media usage, self-efficacy and cultural intelligence. Based on Social Cognitive Theory, findings indicate that both informational and socializing usage of social media increa...