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International Human Resource Management and Cultural Learning

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Global Collaboration: Intercultural Experiences and Learning

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Global collaboration, the focus of this volume, is a crucial success factor in international business (for a summary see also Ng, Van Dyne & Ang, 2009b). Global interactions occur in many day-to-day business operations and especially when managers are assigned to foreign locations for business travel or longer periods of time (see, for example, Earley & Mosakowski, 2004; Littrell et al ., 2006). Successful collaboration in these interactions is a complex and demanding task, requiring mutual and profound intercultural understanding by the parties involved. This understanding is the result of intense cultural learning processes (Waxin & Panaccio, 2005).

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Festing, M. (2012). State of the Art. In: Gertsen, M.C., Søderberg, AM., Zølner, M. (eds) Global Collaboration: Intercultural Experiences and Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137026064_4

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