This paper reports the results of a study inquiring about the role of education-related factors in the development of Cultural Intelligence. 557 students of a Colombian International Business undergraduate program participated in the study. The psychometric properties of the measures were assessed by conducting exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, and by calculating the corresponding reliability coefficients. T-tests and ANOVA analyses were carried out to test the hypotheses of the study.The results of the study suggest that second language proficiency, multicultural team membership, and participation in curricular and extracurricular activities promote the development of the Cultural Intelligence of undergraduate International Business students.
Cultural intelligence (CQ) has been regarded as a key factor in international business success. A recently validated scale, the Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient (BCIQ), refines the CQ concept by applying it exclusively to the business context. The BCIQ aims at predicting long-term cross-cultural success using a combination of CQ factors, cognitive features, and measurable independent variables (Alon et al., 2016b). Using the multigroup exploratory factor analysis approach, we found low measurement invariance for the (BCIQ) instrument across eight countries (
Comercializadora Inducascos S.A. inició sus operaciones en 1998 en la ciudad de Medellín, Colombia, enfrentando dificultades de todo tipo, tales como escaso capital, infraestructura limitada y un número reducido de empleados. Además, su fundador habia enfrentado varias quiebras económicas. Esta comercializadora es ahora una empresa mediana para el sector local con un alto porcentaje de participación de mercado debido al volumen de cascos que fabrica y comercializa, a su amplio portafolio de productos y a su estructura comercial que le permiten atender todos los segmentos del mercado colombiano. El crecimiento de las ventas de motocicletas en Colombia, el boom de importaciones de motos chinas desde el 2005 y la evolución de la normativa concerniente al uso obligatorio del casco han contribuido a que los volúmenes de ventas de la empresa hayan crecido de manera exponencial desde su creación y a que exista una demanda constante del producto. Este caso describe la toma de decisiones del fundador Ramiro Agudelo, que se traduce en la estrategia de crecimiento e internacionalización de la empresa.
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