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Managerial Roles in the International Context

Managerial Roles in the International Context

Managerial roles in the international context
DavinaVora

In their review of cross-cultural organizational behavior research, Gelfand, Erez, and Aycan (2007) argue that intercultural encounters are an underresearched, critical area of research. They advocate research on the interface between national, organizational, and individual levels of the global work environment. An examination of managerial roles in the international context does just this, as it concerns boundary spanning roles of managers across national contexts as well as the role stress associated with such interfacing.

Since the early 1900s, researchers have suggested a number of typologies of managerial roles, responsibilities, and duties (e.g., Fayol, 1916/1949; Kotter, 1982; Mintzberg, 1970, 1971) and developed theories of roles and role stress (e.g., Biddle, 1986; Collins, 1988; Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, ...

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