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The Impact of Cultural Intelligence on Communication Effectiveness, Job Satisfaction and Anxiety for Chinese Host Country Managers Working for Foreign Multinationals

Bücker, Joost J.L.E. ; Furrer, Olivier ; Poutsma, Erik ; Buyens, Dirk

In: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2014, vol. 25, no. 14, p. 2068-2087

Cultural intelligence (CQ) is an important construct attracting growing attention in academic literature and describing cross-cultural competencies. To date, researchers have only partially tested the relationship between CQ and its dependent variables, such as performance. In this study, the relationship between CQ and communication effectiveness and job satisfaction is measured in a sample...

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Technology-Sourcing Investment Abroad as an Enhancer of Chinese MNEs’ Innovative Capabilities

Gugler, Philippe ; Vanoli, Laura

In: International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2015, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 243-271

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on Chinese firms’ innovation processes that are induced by foreign direct investment abroad. The study uses a patent and citation analysis to examine the extent to which investments abroad contribute to enhancing these firms’ innovative capabilities. More specifically, this study focusses on the role of foreign location competitiveness as...

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A Hierarchical Framework of New Products Development : an Example from Biotechnology

Alexandre, Maria Tereza ; Furrer, Olivier ; Sudharshan, D.

In: European Journal of Innovation Management, 2003, vol. 6, no. 1, p. 48-63

Many new products are based on new technologies, which may in turn be based on new scientific discoveries. The extant literature on new product development has focused on how a firm may successfully commercialize new products. There is a corporate cost associated with new product failure, which extends beyond the final product-manufacturing corporation to all the parties involved in the...

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Swiss Counterintelligence and Chinese Espionage in the Cold War

Knüsel, Ariane

In: Journal of Cold War Studies, 2020, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 4-31

This article discusses Swiss counterintelligence measures against Chinese espionage during the Cold War, focusing on the problems the Swiss Federal Police encountered when trying to uncover and eliminate the national and transnational intelligence networks the PRC operated from Switzerland in the 1950s and 1960s. Using newly declassified Swiss Federal Police files, the article details the...