38 research outputs found
Using X-Culture in International Business Courses: Challenges and Best Practices
No full textStructured as an interactive discussion session, this session is led by internationally experienced
professors representing a number of universities from across Europe, Asia, and North America.
The panel is designed to provide insights and reflections on how the X-Culture project is utilized
across a variety of business courses spanning 7 universities across 8 countries, the Czech
Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Portugal, and the USA. The session will
contain prepared prompts for conversation organized across several thematic categories, with
most of the session offering interaction and discussion with the audience. This session aims to
bring together academics with X-Culture experience and those considering adding this project to
their course to provide an opportunity to share insights focused on developing ways to optimize
X-Culture use in IB courses.
X-Culture (www.X-Culture.org), launched in 2010, provides the opportunity for students
from different countries to work in global virtual teams (GVTs) and complete a business project,
learning the challenges and best practices of global cross-cultural collaboration. X-Culture is a
large-scale international experiential learning project. About 6,000 students from 140 universities
in over 50 countries on six continents participate every semester. X-Culture has reached the
milestone of 100,000 student participants with over 103,000 alumni as of mid-2023. Students are
placed in GVTs with approximately five to seven members. Multinational corporations team up
with X-Culture annually and present their challenges. Working in GVTs, students develop
solutions to the challenges presented by corporate partners. Students experience first-hand the difficulties and learn best practices of international collaboration and business plan development
skills. Combined, the group of panelists has many years of project experience and developed
unique implementation strategies. This is more of a ‘community-of-scholars-facilitateddiscussion’
session rather than a typical panel-presentation session to provide ample opportunity
for the exchange of ideas and interaction with the audience. This panel has been very well
attended throughout the past 10+ years at the annual Academy of Management and Academy of
International Business conferences and, more recently, at the annual EIBA conferences
The role of social capital in cross-cultural M&As: a multinational corporation perspective
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RESEARCH ON INTERNATIONAL ACQUISITION PERFORMANCE: A CRITICAL EVALUATION AND NEW DIRECTIONS.
No full textInstitutions and emerging markets: effects and implications for multinational corporations
No full textREVISITING THE SWOLLEN MIDDLE: A JOINT PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL THEORY AND TCE ON JOINT VENTURES.
No full textFOREIGN MARKET ENTRY CHOICE, SOCIAL CAPITAL, AND LIABILITIES OF FOREIGNNESS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK.
No full textA Marriage Metaphor Model for Sociocultural Integration in International Mergers and Acquisitions
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Best Practices of Incorporating the X-Culture Project in International Business Curriculum
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