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- Title
It's a Jungle Out There. On Managerial Cognition, Change, and Learning During Internationalization.
- Authors
Apfelthaler, Gerhard; Shane, Mary Jo; Hruby, Jörg
- Abstract
International expansion is one of the most challenging organizational events, requiring employees to change, learn and adapt. While these concepts have been applied in a variety of diverse contexts, change and learning during the internationalization process for small- and medium-sized enterprises has largely been ignored. Our study focuses on the cognitive changes that managers of small and medium-sized European companies experienced when shifting their focus to international environments. Employing a grounded theory approach, our results indicate that internationalization triggers changes in managerial cognition in four major areas -- perceptions of trust, intuition, cultural awareness, and approaches to doing business abroad.
- Subjects
GLOBALIZATION; COGNITION; DECISION making; GROUNDED theory; INDIVIDUAL learning accounts
- Publication
International Journal of Global Management Studies, 2011, Vol 3, Issue 2, p22
- ISSN
1945-3876
- Publication type
Article