Empirical analysis of ‘level of comfort’ among international workers at multinational firms

Authors

  • Vijesh Jain Institute of Technology and Science, Ghaziabad, India
  • Susana Costa e Silva Católica Porto Business School Universidade Católica Portuguesa | Porto Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327 4169-005 Porto, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18568/1980-4865.12245-57

Keywords:

Cultural Distance, Cross Culture Study, Comfort with Foreign Cultures, Culture to Culture Comfort

Abstract

The research is grounded in responses of multicultural team members at multinational workplaces from 14 different countries that provided their preferences or choice of nationalities of members that they would like to hire/work with. Results show clear differences in ‘levels of comfort’ displayed by managers and members having particular national cultural background in what concerns their preferences and choices of colleagues with origins from other national cultures. These variations results into designation of rankings to the destination regions based on preference by the respondents from the source countries. Results also show a somewhat common pattern of preferences irrespective of their national origins that has been described.

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Author Biographies

Vijesh Jain, Institute of Technology and Science, Ghaziabad, India

PhD in Marketing (University of Mysore, Mysore, India). Professor and Chiarperson (Economics Department) at Institute of Technolology and Science, Ghaziabad, India. Researcher in the field of Cross Cultural Management, International Cultures, International Business.

Susana Costa e Silva, Católica Porto Business School Universidade Católica Portuguesa | Porto Rua de Diogo Botelho, 1327 4169-005 Porto, Portugal

PhD in Marketing (University College Dublin, Ireland). Lecturer at Católica Porto Business School, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, Portugal. Researcher in the fields of Strategic Marketing International Marketing and Social Marketing.

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2017-08-01

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Jain, V., & Silva, S. C. e. (2017). Empirical analysis of ‘level of comfort’ among international workers at multinational firms. Internext - International Business and Management Review, 12(2), 45–57. https://doi.org/10.18568/1980-4865.12245-57

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