TY - JOUR
T1 - Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient
T2 - A Five-Country Study
AU - Alon, Ilan
AU - Boulanger, Michele
AU - Elston, Julie Ann
AU - Galanaki, Eleanna
AU - Martínez de Ibarreta, Carlos
AU - Meyers, Judith
AU - Muñiz-Ferrer, Marta
AU - Vélez-Calle, Andrés
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - Cultural intelligence (CI) has often been linked to performance at the individual, team, and firm levels as a key factor in international business success. Using a new measure of CI, the business cultural intelligence quotient (BCIQ), our study provides empirical evidence on several key antecedents of CI using data on business professionals across five diverse countries (Austria, Colombia, Greece, Spain, and the United States). The findings suggest that the most important factors leading to cultural intelligence, in order of importance, are the number of countries that business practitioners have lived in for more than six months, their level of education, and the number of languages spoken. We find that cultural intelligence varies across countries, suggesting that some countries have a higher propensity for cross-cultural business interactions. By teasing out the common antecedents of BCIQ among professionals, our findings may help with screening and training professionals for international assignments. Future research may examine the environmental (country-specific) factors associated with a higher propensity for cultural intelligence (such as immigration, cultural diversity, languages spoken, and international trade) to explain the effect of country of origin on cultural intelligence in the professional community.
AB - Cultural intelligence (CI) has often been linked to performance at the individual, team, and firm levels as a key factor in international business success. Using a new measure of CI, the business cultural intelligence quotient (BCIQ), our study provides empirical evidence on several key antecedents of CI using data on business professionals across five diverse countries (Austria, Colombia, Greece, Spain, and the United States). The findings suggest that the most important factors leading to cultural intelligence, in order of importance, are the number of countries that business practitioners have lived in for more than six months, their level of education, and the number of languages spoken. We find that cultural intelligence varies across countries, suggesting that some countries have a higher propensity for cross-cultural business interactions. By teasing out the common antecedents of BCIQ among professionals, our findings may help with screening and training professionals for international assignments. Future research may examine the environmental (country-specific) factors associated with a higher propensity for cultural intelligence (such as immigration, cultural diversity, languages spoken, and international trade) to explain the effect of country of origin on cultural intelligence in the professional community.
KW - Antecedents of CQ
KW - Business Cultural Intelligence Quotient (BCIQ)
KW - Global Leadership
KW - Global Mindset
KW - Intercultural Competence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84963664725&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/tie.21826
DO - 10.1002/tie.21826
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AN - SCOPUS:84963664725
SN - 1096-4762
VL - 60
SP - 237
EP - 250
JO - Thunderbird International Business Review
JF - Thunderbird International Business Review
IS - 3
ER -