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About: Global Leadership is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1598 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29200 citations.


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08 Nov 2016
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the impact of multicultural managers' skills in cross-border alliances and M&A, highlighting their greater cultural empathy, perspective-taking skills and ability to bridge cultural gaps.
Abstract: In order to understand how organizations can best use their multicultural employees' skills, it is important to first understand what multicultural employees contribute to international business. This chapter explores multiculturals' impact on five international business activities – international teams, intercultural negotiations, international assignments, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), global leadership and ethics illustrated – with examples about Indra Nooyi and Carlos Ghosn. In cross-border alliances and M&A, multicultural managers may influence out-comes in several ways and at different stages of the process. A key asset of multiculturals is their greater cultural empathy, perspective-taking skills and ability to bridge cultural gaps. These skills are important before the alliance or merger takes effect, during the due diligence and negotiation stages. The purpose of cultural due diligence is to evaluate factors that influence the organizational fit, to understand the future cultural dynamics as the two organizations merge, and to prepare a plan for how cultural issues should be addressed if the deal goes forward.

1 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
Lori A. Spies1
TL;DR: Each year, a select group of advanced practice nursing students at Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing travel to Africa for a month-long clinical mission experience, preparing students to be global influencers.
Abstract: How can universities create engaged citizens and global leaders? Each year, a select group of advanced practice nursing students at Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing travel to Africa for a month-long clinical mission experience. Students work alongside local and missionary healthcare providers in a comprehensive Christian outreach to the community at a high-volume clinic. Creating rich learning experiences in a global setting in significant and sustainable ways is difficult, but intentionally focusing on what we are called to do and who we serve provides ballast for faculty and students. The success of the trip in preparing students to be global influencers is evident by the work graduates elect to do around the world, following graduation.

1 citations

01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: Mendez et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the emerging epistemologies of climate change in California as articulated by social movements, experts, and subnational governments, and highlighted the challenges California faces in influencing global climate policy while addressing the needs of local communities that are already adversely impacted by air pollution.
Abstract: Author(s): Mendez, Michael A. | Advisor(s): Corburn, Jason | Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the emerging epistemologies of climate change in California as articulated by social movements, experts, and subnational governments. As the world’s eighth-largest economy and the only state in the U.S. to implement a comprehensive program of regulatory and market-based mechanisms to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, California represents an important site of inquiry. The passage of Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 has made the state a global leader on climate change science and policy innovation. While no subnational government can halt climate change alone, California’s environmental policies have a long history of success and replication. Through an extensive analysis of the state’s climate policies and interviews with key stakeholders, this dissertation highlights the challenges California faces in influencing global climate policy while addressing the needs of local communities that are already adversely impacted by air pollution. As cities and public agencies appropriate leadership roles in climate governance, policy formulation is increasingly emerging as an expert-driven process that emphasizes global GHG reductions as the goal and geographically-neutral economic and technological fixes as the solution. In this process, community-based strategies that integrate climate change interventions with population health outcomes are often excluded. This dissertation asks how environmental justice advocates are engaging strategically in the policymaking process in order to legitimize or contest regulatory policies regarding climate change in the face of ongoing pollution, illness, and injustice. In answering this question, the dissertation centers on three areas of inquiry: (1) the public health and environmental justice aspects of municipal climate action plans; (2) the conflict over statewide carbon pricing and use of its revenue for investment in communities most impacted by air pollution; and, (3) the social implications of international forest carbon-offset projects allowable under California’s market-based climate change law. These cases provide critical insights into environmental inequities and the emerging epistemologies of climate change on multiple scales. The dissertation findings demonstrate that the implementation of climate policies can either serve to exacerbate or redress underlying environmental health inequities in urban communities. In particular, these cases highlight the environmental justice strategies that are challenging a priori policy expertise to produce new local, place-based conceptualizations of climate change that underscore population health and community well-being.

1 citations

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12 Mar 2021
TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global environmental jolt posing challenges for global leaders as mentioned in this paper, where established social support networks, both work/career-related and personal/social, have been curtailed, leading to greater challenge in maintaining psychological health.
Abstract: Environmental jolts are defined as “transient perturbations whose occurrences are difficult to foresee and whose impacts on organizations are disruptive and potentially inimical.” Environmental jolts are noteworthy because they: 1) expose critical linkages, 2) test leader and organization integrity and resilience, 3) surface values, and 4) reveal mindsets undergirding adaptive responses. They give rise to unconventional behaviors and afford latitude for experimentation. Jolts provide a unique and challenging context within which to develop global leaders and foster competences associated with global leadership. The COVID-19 pandemic is a global environmental jolt posing challenges for global leaders. The jolt exerts impact on multiple fronts. It includes a strong negative affective element. Established social support networks, both work/career-related and personal/social, have been curtailed, leading to greater challenge in maintaining psychological health. The suddenness and severity of the jolt quickly absorbed slack resources and forced many organizations to substantially curtail major portions of their business operations as well as furlough or cut back work hours for a sizable percentage of their workforce. Three challenges emerge: 1) focused development on integrative roles and competences, 2) a need for innovation in development approaches, and 3) recognizing the jolt’s on openness to learn and grow.

1 citations


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202330
202242
202183
2020108
201983
201889