Cultural intelligence: Domain and assessment

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-143

  Thomas, David C ^a,m   Elron, Efrat ^b   Stahl, Günter ^c   Ekelund, Bjørn Z ^d   Ravlin, Elizabeth C ^e,n   Cerdin, Jean Luc ^f   Poelmans, Steven ^g   Brislin, Richard ^h   Pekerti, Andre ⁱ   Aycan, Zeynep ^j   Maznevski, Martha ^k   Au, Kevin ^l   Lazarova, Mila B ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c INSEAD   (France)

^d Human Factors AS   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^g IESE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^j KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^k IMD   (Switzerland)

^l CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^m SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cross cultural management; Cross cultural skills; Cultural competence; Cultural intelligence; Cultural metacognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049124094     PISSN: 14705958     EISSN: 17412838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470595808091787     Document Type: Article

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