Christoph Barmeyer- Professor
- Head of Department at University of Passau
Christoph Barmeyer
- Professor
- Head of Department at University of Passau
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Introduction
Christoph Barmeyer is Full Professor in Intercultural Communication and Management. Interculturality is socially constructed, so that new "third" cultures can emerge in dialogic processes. Therefore cultural differences are not a problem, but a resource that can be used in complementary and synergetic ways by detecting, accepting and combining strengths. His approach takes in account culture-specific and contextual elements and relationships.
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October 2008 - present
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Publications (288)
Purpose
Recent calls in international management (IM) research ask scholars to conduct more context-sensitive research, however; little attention has been paid to the methodological particularities that inform such context sensitivity. This paper aims to addresses this shortcoming by exploring how emic concepts implicate IM research processes durin...
This paper examines the integration of highly skilled migrants into organizations. Whereas prior research has mainly focused on macro-economic and macro-political analysis, little is known about the dynamic process of organizational level integration. Applying Strauss’ theory of social worlds and the concept of multiple cultures, we dismantle the b...
Purpose
This paper aims to study historical intercultural transfer by examining the case of the Mouvement Desjardins, a Quebec, Canada-based cooperative bank founded in 1900 by Alphonse Desjardins. The aim of the cooperative was to support the hitherto marginalized French–Canadian population and to initiate their economic and entrepreneurial activi...
In Forschung und Praxis wird Interkulturalität vor allem als problematisch und konfliktbehaftet thematisiert. Nur selten werden positive, konstruktive Aspekte wahrgenommen. Kulturelle Unterschiede können jedoch auch als Bereicherung und Gewinn verstanden werden. Ausgehend von einem Paradigmenwechsel, von einer problemorientierten zu einer lösungsor...
Interkulturalität betrifft den gegenseitigen Verständigungsprozess von Personen, die verschiedenen Kulturen zugehörig sind und insofern nicht über dieselben Wertorientierungen, Bedeutungssysteme und Wissensbestände verfügen. Interkulturalität betrifft in jüngster Zeit immer mehr Menschen, sei es außerhalb oder innerhalb der eigenen Lebenswelten. Im...
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...
The Grand Challenge None of Us Chose:
Succeeding (and Failing) Against the Global Pandemic
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic and its related economic meltdown and social unrest severely challenged most countries, their societies, economies, organizations, and individual citizens. Focusing on both more and less successful country-specific initiatives t...
Interkulturelles Coaching hat sich in internationalen Organisationen etabliert, um Fach- und Führungskräfte, beispielsweise während eines Auslandsaufenthaltes oder in internationalen Projekten, zu unterstützten. Der Beitrag wendet die in der Organisationsforschung gebräuchlichen sozialwissenschaftlichen Paradigmen – kurz Weltsichten – auf einen kon...
As a border-transcending discipline, the advancement of international management research depends on collaboration between scholars, universities, and nations to account for the diversity and complexity of management phenomena. Yet, relatively little is known about how international management has evolved as a field of research. We address this gap...
Migrants entering a new country also search for belonging. Through employment, migrants work in organizations and experience socialization in these new contexts. Thereby, organizations offer migrants a wide range of possibilities for identification and are thus places to regain a sense of belonging. We rely on prior research showing what migrants e...
Book review by Peter McGee University of London, UK.
Citation:
McGee, P. (2021). Constructive intercultural management: Integrating cultural differences successfully (a review). Training, Language and Culture, 5(3), 100-102.
DOI: 10.22363/2521-442X-2021-5-3-100-102
Zusammenfassung
Organisationsentwicklung hat zum Ziel, das Problemlösungspotenzial und die Selbsterneuerungsfähigkeit von Organisationen zu erhöhen. Dabei versucht Organisationsentwicklung die Zielerreichung der Organisation unter gleichzeitiger Einbeziehung der Bedürfnisse der Mitarbeiter und anderer involvierter Stakeholder zu unterstützen. Im in...
The transfer of management practices in multinational companies has been discussed as a central topic in international business. Research has mainly focused on the challenges associated with transfer processes, but little is known about facilitating factors in cross-cultural transfer, even less in emerging markets. Based on a single case study of a...
This textbook comprises an innovative companion for cross-cultural management classes, demonstrating how organizations can deal with cultural differences successfully. Providing a constructive and positive lens into the multifaceted world of interculturality, the authors illustrate the multiple benefits associated with cultural diversity in the fas...
Paradigms are basic assumptions about how social reality is perceived, understood and explained. Whereas most research is based on a single paradigm, few empirical papers show the advantages of using multiple paradigms within a study. This article pleads for multi-paradigm studies in cross-cultural management research in order to reach a more multi...
Today’s world is characterised by change at a rapid pace. A concept
that describes this demanding environment is the acronym VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. These four dynamics affect not only organisations but also leaders. Nevertheless, a comprehensive understanding of leadership under VUCA conditions remains vague. To f...
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Today’s world is characterised by change at a rapid pace. A concept
that describes this demanding environment is the acronym VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. These four dynamics affect not only organisations but also leaders. Nevertheless, a comprehensive understanding of leadership under VUCA conditions remains vague. To f...
The authors argue that a paradigm shift in intercultural management is needed to withdraw from a problem-oriented perspective – stressing the differences and difficulties of intercultural interactions – and foster a solution-oriented, positive psychology perspective, taking PP1.0 and PP2.0, the first and second wave of positive psychology, into acc...
In James Bond-Filmen wird Zuschauern aufgrund der Handlungen in verschiedenen Erdregionen nicht nur kulturelle Fremdheit vorgelebt, sondern auch immer wieder die Fähigkeit eines reisenden Agenten gezeigt, mit kultureller Alterität erfolgreich umzugehen. Aus interkultureller Perspektive stellt sich dabei allerdings die Frage, ob dies tatsächlich im...
James Bond 007 – die erfolgreichste Kinofilmserie der Welt nimmt auf seine Fangemeinde seit Jahrzehnten Einfluss: Bond zeigt den Zuschauern das Gute und das Schlechte auf der Welt, repräsentiert Länder, belegt Räume mit Assoziationen und erschafft Weltbilder. Er verkörpert Ideale, Identitäten und lebt Interkulturelle Kompetenz vor. Vor diesem Hinte...
Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the central roles, functions and competences of third-country nationals (TCNs) in intercultural boundary spanning in multinational corporations (MNCs): Why are TCNs particularly important for reducing complexity at the overlapping functional, geographic and external boundaries of MNCs with their related interf...
La recherche en management interculturel comprend une variété de disciplines et de spécialités, impliquant un éventail divers de thématiques, paradigmes et méthodes de recherche. En l’absence d’une analyse systématique de l'évolution de ces aspects, cet article trace une carthographie de 614 articles publiés sur 15 ans (entre 2001 et 2016) dans deu...
Interkulturelle Kommunikation und ihre Auswirkungen beschäftigen seit vielen Jahrzehnten Praxis und Forschung des interkulturellen Managements, das sich mit kulturellen Besonderheiten beschäftigt, die u. a. in Arbeitssituationen manifest werden und aufgrund divergierender Werteorientierungen sowie Bedeutungs- und Interpretationsschemata von Akteure...
Menschen leben in sozialen Netzwerken, die sie befähigen das eigene soziale Kapital aufzubauen und zu erweitern. Dieses wirkt identitätsstiftend, gibt Geborgenheit und Sicherheit, schafft Vertrauen sowie Orientierung und ermöglicht den Zugang zu multiplen Ressourcen. Zu diesen gehören Wissen, Information und Unterstützung, was sich wiederum insbeso...
This chapter shows a bi-national researcher team can improve the quality of interactions with the actors of bi-national organisations during the different steps of the research process. Field research in multinational organizations is increasingly carried out by intercultural teams or tandems in which at least one member comes from the country or c...
Success factors in the international transfer of quality management practices at Liebherr.
The response to the Covid 19 pandemic varies from country to country, both politically and socially. These differences cannot be explained sufficiently only by the so-called reproduction factor and the mortality rate. Now and then, the measures taken and the reactions to these also point to cultural differences. Focusing on three complementary cult...
https://www.sietareu.org/seu-journal-march-2020/
This article examines the middle management representations of organization and managerial roles within a specific bicultural organizational context. The argument explores the extant cross-cultural management literature and identifies two predominant positions: a functionalist-stable stance and a dynamically interpretive perspective of culture. His...
In this paper, we show how new work and managerial practices emerge in international joint ventures (IJVs),
how they are co-constructed by cultural negotiating processes over time, and how this co-construction can
provide synergistic effects. We use the case study of a binational railway organization which coordinates activities of its parent compa...
Multinationale Unternehmen beschäftigen in ihren Tochtergesellschaften zahlreiche Mitarbeiter, die wichtige Schnittstellenfunktionen intraorganisationaler Kommunikation, Koordinierung und Kontrolle übernehmen. Aufgrund komplexer Anforderungen an diesen Schnittstellen müssen sie über zahlreiche Kompetenzen verfügen. Sie tragen somit zum interkulture...
Cross-cultural management (CCM) research comprises a variety of disciplines with different thematic, paradigmatic, and methodological assumptions. Since there has been no systematic analysis of the development of topics, paradigms, and methods, this article draws a landscape of these analyzing 777 articles published in two leading journals between...
Research on information flows within companies has focused on codified formalized information management tools. In practice, it is questionable whether IT-based management systems for storing and disseminating internal information in organizations are sufficiently used by the staff. As an alternative to centralized forms and instruments of informat...
While recent contributions introduce the need for dialog between global knowledge management (GKM) and global talent management (GTM) to facilitate repatriate knowledge transfer, a literature gap exists regarding the implementation of this hybrid approach. Using the theoretical backgrounds of repatriate knowledge, GKM and GTM, we define the challen...
Begegnung und Interaktion von Menschen unterschiedlicher kultureller Zugehörigkeit, die zusammenwirken, um gemeinsam Ziele zu erreichen ist gelebter Alltag, besonders im Kontext wirtschaftlicher Organisationen. Diese vorhandene kulturelle Unterschiedlichkeit zu überbrücken, ist Ziel der Interkulturalität. Doch was nützt es, immer nur die Probleme k...
Dieses Buch beschreibt die Potenziale und Ressourcen, die durch Konstruktives Interkulturelles Management erschlossen werden können und liefert zudem Impulse, es zu verstehen und gewinnbringend zu gestalten. Es wird gezeigt, dass Organisationen produktiver, kreativer und innovativer werden können, wenn sich verschieden kulturelle Elemente ergänzen...
Cross-cultural management research is often confined to the positivist tradition, which is archetypically illustrated by the seminal work of Hofstede. However, this gives an incomplete overview of the field to which three additional research paradigms contribute: interpretivist, postmodern, and critical. Our ambition is to raise awareness of the pr...
While recent contributions introduce the need for dialog between global knowledge management (GKM) and global talent management (GTM) to facilitate repatriate knowledge transfer, a literature gap exists regarding the implementation of this hybrid approach. Using the theoretical backgrounds of repatriate knowledge, GKM and GTM, we define the challen...
Films depict the world and convey perspectives on it. The same can be said of the extensively well distributed James Bond film series which has been critically acclaimed and successful for the last several decades from “Dr. No” (1962) to “Spectre” (2015). In 2012, it celebrated its 50th anniversary and can be considered an especially influential cu...
Zwischen Diversity Management und Interkulturellem Management existieren in Forschung und Praxis nur wenige Wechselbeziehungen, obwohl sie sich wichtige Impulse liefern könnten. Dieser Buchbeitrag stellt zum einen auf Basis eines Paradigmenmodells aus der Organisationsforschung einen Orientierungsrahmen für den Forschungsstand in Diversity Manageme...
Paperback 9781137027375 £36.99 / $60.00 How can organizations and individuals manage intercultural challenges and benefit from diversity? Intercultural Management. A Case-Based Approach to Achieving Complementarity and Synergy is about managing across cultures: the difficulties and opportunities it brings and the competencies needed to handle its c...
