The crucial yet elusive Global Mindset

Boyaçigiller, Nakiye A.; Beechler, Schon; Taylor, Sully; Levy, Orly

Abstract

Global managers face challenges, dualities, and paradoxes of mammoth proportions for which structural solutions no longer are effective. Building on the idea of requisite variety, researchers are beginning to conclude that only complex human behavior can match these complex demands of the global environment. Managers need a mindset that enables them to think outside the narrow confines of a single cultural view. This global mindset comprises cognitive complexity, joined with an awareness of the world and a positive orientation toward it, cosmopolitanism.

Citation

Boyaçigiller, N. A., Beechler, S., Taylor, S., & Levy, O. (2004). The crucial yet elusive Global Mindset. In H. Lane, M. Maznevski, & M. E. Mendenhall (Eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Global Management (81-93). Blackwell Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405166355.ch4

• Publication Date: Apr 1, 2004
• Deposit Date: Jan 21, 2020
• Pages: 81-93
• Series Title: Handbooks in management
• Book Title: The Blackwell Handbook of Global Management
• ISBN: 9780631231936
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405166355.ch4