Senior expatriate leadership's effects on innovation and the role of cultural intelligence

Elenkov, Detelin; Manev, Ivan M.

doi:10.1016/j.jwb.2008.11.001

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“…It is one of the key tenets of successful transformational leaders (Ismail, Reza & Mahdi, 2012). Elenkov and Manev (2009) report that cultural intelligence moderates the positive relationship between visionary-transformational leadership and organisational innovation, such that leaders with higher cultural intelligence magnify the positive effect of leadership on innovation. Furthermore, the leader's cultural intelligence is strongly related to leader and team performance (Groves & Feyerherm, 2011) as well as to leader emergence (Rockstuhl, Ang, Ng, Van Dyne & Lievens, 2009).…”

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A preliminary study to assess the construct validity of a cultural intelligence measure on a South African sample

Mahembe

Engelbrecht

2014

SA j. hum. resour. manag.

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Orientation: Cultural intelligence is an essential social competence for effective individual interaction in a cross-cultural context. The cultural intelligence scale (CQS) is used extensively for assessing cultural intelligence; nevertheless, its reliability and validity on a South African sample are yet to be ascertained.Research purpose: The purpose of the current study was to assess the construct validity of the CQS on a South African sample. The results of the psychometric assessment offer some important insights into the factor structure of the cultural intelligence construct.Motivation for the study: The current study sought to provide some practical validity confirmation of the CQS for the effective management of cultural diversity in the South African context.Research approach, design and method: The CQS was administered on a non-probability sample of 229 young adults in South Africa. Item analysis was performed to ascertain reliability. Exploratory factor analysis was used to test the unidimensionality of CQS subscales. The first-order and second-order factor structures underlying contemporary models of cultural intelligence were tested using confirmatory factor analysis.Main findings: Results indicated that the CQS is a reliable and valid measure of cultural intelligence as evidenced by the high internal consistency coefficients in all the subscales. Good construct validity for both the first-order and second-order models was obtained via confirmatory factor analysis.Practical/managerial implications: The study finds good measurement properties of the CQS in a South African context. The CQS can be confidently used for applications such as selecting, training and developing a more culturally competent workforce.Contribution: The study extends the body of knowledge on the reliability and construct validity of the CQS in the South African milieu. It further indicates that cultural intelligence can be represented by a general cultural intelligence factor that drives more specific dimensions of cultural intelligence.

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Section: Introduction Key Focus Of the Studymentioning

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A preliminary study to assess the construct validity of a cultural intelligence measure on a South African sample

Mahembe

Engelbrecht

2014

SA j. hum. resour. manag.

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“…Thus, the lack of moderation by CQ to the link between RACAP and innovativeness is not in contradiction to the core premise of CQ that favors exploration, heterogeneity, and unpredictability over exploitation, homogeneity, and certainty (Elenkov & Manev, 2009;Moon, 2010).…”

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“…It enables setting culturally suitable goals and implementing innovations more effectively by responding to cultural differences, ambiguities, and complexities (Elenkov & Manev, 2009;Moon, 2010). We argue that one of the means to leverage CQ resides in its potential facilitating role in translating PACAP and RACAP into increased innovativeness.…”

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“…In particular, since CQ is an explorative capability (Moon, 2010), we expect a stronger positive moderation by CQ on the link between PACAP and innovativeness than the link between RACAP and innovativeness. Besides exploiting existing external knowledge bases in greater depth, firms need to extend their scope by exploring new external knowledge sources (Borgatti & Foster, 2003;Dyer & Singh, 1998); and the extant theory signals that CQ could be a proper capability to do so (Elenkov & Manev, 2009;Moon, 2010). In particular, the central role of CQ in effective initiation and management of intercultural interactions (Earley & Ang, 2003) could serve as an underlying mechanism for exploring valuable knowledge from such sources of diverse cultural backgrounds.…”

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How does cultural intelligence influence the relationships between potential and realised absorptive capacity and innovativeness? Evidence from Poland

Gölgeci

Światowiec-Szczepańska

Raczkowski

2016

Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

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Cultural intelligence underpins the interaction between firms and their cultural environments as the domain of external sources that are explored and utilized for innovation through absorptive capacity. This research seeks to answer the question of if and how cultural intelligence moderates the links between innovativeness and potential and realized absorptive capacity. We test our hypotheses based on data from 215 firms operating in Poland. We demonstrate that cultural intelligence strengthens the linkage between potential absorptive capacity and innovativeness that highlights cultural intelligence as an important enabler of exploring new and diverse external knowledge sources. We discuss cultural intelligence concept in relation to strategic management and reveal its contingent role in innovativeness.

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“…Widmier, Brouthers & Beamish (2008) argue that, as a worldwide resource, expatriates can be easily reassigned to where their expertise is needed. Elenkov & Manev (2009) note that MNEs often appoint expatriates at higher ranks within local subsidiaries as they are expected to play a critical role in the diffusion of managerial and technological expertise and control over subsidiaries which are spread across the globe (Harzing, 2001b;Minbaeva & Michailova, 2004 (Elenkov & Manev, 2009). Expatriate managers can also help create a work environment that can unleash creativity by setting up personal example of support for innovation (Amabile, Schatzel, Moneta & Kramer, 2004).…”

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Can locally-recruited R&D personnel significantly contribute to multinational subsidiary innovation in an emerging economy?

Wang

Liu

2013

International Business Review

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This paper assesses the role of locally-recruited R&D personnel relative to their expatriate counterparts as regards innovation in multinational subsidiariesin an emerging economy. Two hypotheses are developed based on a network approach to multinational enterprises in an emerging economy setting, and tested on a sample of 317 multinational subsidiaries in China.Our results indicate that locally-recruited R&D personnel have played a limited role in innovation within multinational subsidiaries. While making a marginally significant contribution to R&D output due to their direct supply of technological knowledge, locally-recruited R&D personnel are unable to translate subsidiary R&D expenditure into successful patent applications probably because of their lack of technology management skills. In comparison, R&D expatriates significantly contribute to multinational subsidiary R&R output in both dimensions.

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Senior expatriate leadership's effects on innovation and the role of cultural intelligence

Cited by 187 publications

References 60 publications

A preliminary study to assess the construct validity of a cultural intelligence measure on a South African sample

A preliminary study to assess the construct validity of a cultural intelligence measure on a South African sample

How does cultural intelligence influence the relationships between potential and realised absorptive capacity and innovativeness? Evidence from Poland

Can locally-recruited R&D personnel significantly contribute to multinational subsidiary innovation in an emerging economy?

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