Cultural Intelligence and the Global Mindset

Abstract

With the globalization of business, a relevant question is how might people deal with others from fundamentally different backgrounds (cultural, ethnic, functional, etc.)? Many authors (Rhinesmith, 1992; Paul, 2000; Gupta & Govindarajan, 2002; Kefalas, 1998, just to mention a few) suggest that managers working in international contexts require a specialized way of thinking about the environment in which they operate, a so-called “global mindset.” In the current chapter, we discuss the evolving notion of a “global mindset” and contrast it with extant work on the related concept of “cultural intelligence” (Earley, 2002; Earley & Ang, 2003; Earley & Mosakowski, 2004; Thomas & Inkson, 2004).

Citation

Earley, P.C., Murnieks, C. and Mosakowski, E. (2007), "Cultural Intelligence and the Global Mindset", Javidan, M., Steers, R.M. and Hitt, M.A. (Ed.) The Global Mindset (Advances in International Management, Vol. 19), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 75-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1571-5027(07)19004-5