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A couple of years ago we were teaching cross-cultural management to MBA students at an international business school when a student came up to us and said, ‘It’s been an interesting class, but you have to hurry up in making money, because you will be out of a job soon.’ When we asked him why, he said that the cultures of the world are becoming more and more alike. Wherever he travelled he would find the same type of hotels and the same type of food; the people he met were all connected to the internet and all looked forward to the launch of the next version of the iPhone.
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Wade Davis is an anthropologist and biologist who works as explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society. He is author of numerous books, including the 1985 bestseller, The Serpent and the Rainbow (New York, NY: Touchstone), in which he investigates Haitian voodoo culture. For his plea to protect cultural diversity, see Wade Davis (2003) Endangered Cultures, TED talk presentation (http://www.ted.com/talks/wade davis on endangered cultures. Filed February 2003, posted January 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2013)
See Ursula Brinkmann and Oscar van Weerdenburg (2002) ‘Risikomanagement bei der interkulturellen Zusammenarbeit’, in Herbert J. Joka (ed.) Führungskräftehandbuch (Berlin, Germany: Springer) pp. 453–68
Karen I. van der Zee and Ursula Brinkmann (2004) ‘Construct Validity Evidence for the Intercultural Readiness Check against the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire’, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Volume 12(3), pp. 285–90
Brinkmann and van Weerdenburg (2004) ‘Training in Culturele Verschillen. Van Stereotiepe Beeiden naar Interculturele Vaardigheden’, Management Tools, Volume 3, pp. 24–9; and van Weerdenburg and Brinkmann (2011) ‘Business Across Borders — No More Stumbling About’, IHRIM Publications, Workforce Solutions Review, March-April issue (http://www.ihrimpublications.com/WSR about.php)
Diversity beliefs: Astrid C. Homan, Lindred L. Greer, Karen A. Jehn and Lukas Koning (2010) ‘Believing Shapes Seeing: The Impact of Diversity Beliefs on the Construal of Group Composition’, Croup Processes & Intergroup Relations, 13(4), pp. 477–93.
Subgroup perception: Elaine L. Zanutto, Katerina Bezrukova and Karen A. Jehn (2011) ‘Revisiting Faultline Conceptualization: Measuring Faultline Strength and Distance’, Quality & Quantity, 45(3), pp. 701–14.
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Brinkmann, U., van Weerdenburg, O. (2014). Introduction. In: Intercultural Readiness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346988_1
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