This paper aims to observe that, as globalization increases the need for businesses to communicate across borders, more HR and learning and development specialists are recognizing…
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to observe that, as globalization increases the need for businesses to communicate across borders, more HR and learning and development specialists are recognizing the link between communication skills, talent mobility and improving business productivity.
Design/methodology/approach
It underlines the need for a unified language‐training system integrating the “perfect blend” of virtual classrooms, mobile learning and e‐learning.
Findings
It argues that one seamless, standardized blended‐learning system can be a powerful tool for organizational talent succession mobility. With a unified approach, management can better categorize the current profile of employees, identify their level of language skills and determine potential successors for different jobs.
Practical implications
The paper urges the need for a combination of global delivery and local support, especially for corporate language training.
Social implications
It highlights the need for proper language training in an increasingly globalized business world.
Originality/value
The paper advances the view that a truly collaborative, adaptable approach for social and mobile learning will harness its benefits to the maximum.
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This study aims to investigate the causal complexity of ECF investors’ peer effect through two different paths of structural social influence.
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to investigate the causal complexity of ECF investors’ peer effect through two different paths of structural social influence.
Design/methodology/approach
Using the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) approach, we employ 157 samples from a Chinese ECF source to explore how peer-effect are caused by both informational and normative mechanisms.
Findings
The findings suggests that there are multiple configurations could lead to ECF investors’ high level peer-effect through both informational and normative mechanisms, and the informational mechanism' role depends on the normative mechanism, while the normative mechanism could lead to peer-effect independently.
Research limitations/implications
The findings enrich the literature on ECF investors’ behaviors by revealing the diverse configurations resulting in investors’ peer-effect and shedding new light on investigating the decision-making driven by information asymmetry and relationship settings for individuals at a disadvantage.
Originality/value
This is the first study that investigates the multiple-driven of ECF investors’ decision-making and the importance of mutual norms in individuals' decision-making by complex network analysis approach and qualitative comparative analysis from the perspective of complexity. The results reveal the complexity of investors’ decision-making in ECF.