tacit knowledge or/and cultural categorization

The paper explores how locals span boundaries between corporate and local levels. The aim is to better comprehend potentialities and challenges when MNCs draws on locals’ culture specific knowledge. The study is based on an in-depth, interpretive case study of boundary spanning by local actors in the period of post-acquisition when their organization is being integrated into the acquiring MNC. The paper contributes to the literature on boundary spanning in three ways: First, by illustrating that boundary spanning is performed by numerous organizational actors in a variety of positions in MNCs, inclusively by locals in subsidiaries. Second, by showing that boundary spanning is ‘situated’ in the sense that its result depends on the kind of knowledge to be transmitted and the attitude of the receivers. A third contribution is methodological. The study illustrates that combining bottom-up grounded approach with pattern matching is a way to shed light on the tacit local knowledge that organizational actors cannot articulate and that an exclusively inductive research is not likely to unveil

The European Higher Education Area and Copenhagen Business School

This Symposium presents curriculum design and content issues in a Scandinavian business school at its Centenary. The aim is an exploration of an educational institution at the interface of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) within the historical trends of the European Union. We hope this step will empirically document how the goals of the European Higher Education Area are functionally linked with the entrepreneurial sensibilities of administration, faculty, and administrative staff during the concrete operations of work. The series of presentations are framed between trans-cultural epistemological foundations in insight-based critical realism and inquiry into how the institutional entrepreneurs – the program directors – negotiate opportunities, risks, and tensions in curriculum and program implementation. Detailed case presentations take up curriculum effort to successfully engage issues of interdisciplinarity, use of text production as a tool in support of project and thesis writing, and the use of plurilingual content based teaching in a cooperative learning model for European studies. The history of one curriculum model initiated to educate better citizens, combining interdisciplinary methods with language instruction, whose features have endured and diffused throughout the business school, ends the presentation set. Symposium discussion will be designed to invite participants, from within the EU and beyond, to join in collaborative practitioner research for the EHEA future

Organizations and migrant integration : towards a multiparadigm narrative approach

This paper explores the potential of conducting multiparadigm research within and beyond cross-cultural management, using narratives to examine how organizations shape migrant integration experiences and trajectories. It highlights the strengths of paradigmatic multiplicity in research with examples of three illustrative studies respectively using functionalist, interpretive and critical perspectives, while also considering the boundaries of these individual approaches. The paper proceeds to explore the potential of adopting a multiparadigm approach within a research strategy that places narratives at the centre of enquiry. It identifies the scope and focus of future research for a socially and politically important area of enquiry; it evaluates the application of diverse paradigm-driven methodological perspectives including the challenges involved in using them alone and in combination; and it develops a transferable framework to guide research in cross-cultural management, organization and migration studies that helps to assure procedural and conceptual rigour, and to generate practicable insights that facilitate successful integration outcomes

Global mobility of employees : creating an audit tool to support good practice

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Voices on HRM Practices: Employee Interpretations at the Subsidiary of a Danish MNC in Bangalore

The article explores the transferability of human resources management practices across cultural contexts. It argues that we need to adopt an interpretative approach to culture; that is, to consider employees as social actors who creatively make sense of HRM practices in light of legitimate patterns of meaning in a given context as well as their personal interests. The article also argues that establishing context specific management scripts offers procedural knowledge of an emic nature which, unlike cultural mapping proposed by aggregate cultural dimensions, furthers our understanding of how employees interpret HRM practices and in turn may influence how these practices are implemented. In this way, the article contributes to the IHRM literature on transferability by proposing an interpretative approach to culture as an alternative to the prevailing positivist conceptualization within the IHRM field. Second, the article adds to theory beyond HRM by introducing the concept of management scripts as a way to capture contextually embedded patterns of meaning that are likely to contribute in shaping the way in which social actors interpret legitimate exercise of power in organizations. Finally, this case study adds to the growing body of knowledge of HRM in an Indian context