Comparative Cosmopolitanism

Robbins, Bruce

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“…Global mindset refers to a cognitive frame of reference that promotes a cosmopolitan attitude towards the world (Hannerz, 1996;Kanter, 1995;Robbins, 1992;Vertovec & Cohen, 2002). International attention, by contrast, indicates how top managers actually focus their time and effort in the course of their work.…”

Section: International Attention Vs Global Mindsetmentioning

confidence: 99%

International attention and multinational enterprise performance

2008

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This study examines the performance consequences of international attention, defined as the extent to which headquarters executives in the multinational enterprise (MNE) invest time and effort in activities, communications, and discussions aimed at improving their understanding of the global marketplace. Using detailed questionnaire and archival data on 135 MNEs, our analysis revealed three significant findings. First, international attention can be operationalized as a meta-construct that consists of three interrelated and reinforcing dimensions. Second, international attention has a curvilinear (inverted U-shape) relationship with MNE performance. Third, the performance benefits of international attention increase with three categories of moderating factors: the international assignment experience of top executives, the independence of value-adding activities across country locations, and the degree of industry dynamism. Journal of International Business Studies (2009) 40, 108–131. doi:10.1057/jibs.2008.64

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Section: International Attention Vs Global Mindsetmentioning

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International attention and multinational enterprise performance

2008

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“…The point is that instead of treating identities as though they occur on the head of a pin, we have to recognize that identities occur not just anywhere, but somewhere; social agency is derived not just anywhere but somewhere. As Bruce Robbins (1998), in a provocative essay, has noted, albeit in a slightly different context, We do not need "easy generalizations," we do need difficult ones-for example, the more difficult though less pious procedure of not assuming agency to be everywhere present, but trying to explain why it is there and why it isn't where it isn 't. (p. 252) If we begin to raise such issues, we see how terms such as difference and margins are celebrated a priori in theories of identity relations as they are currently deployed in critical communication and cultural studies.…”

Section: Beyond the Framework Of Identitymentioning

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Space Matters: The Power and Practice of Space

Shome

2003

Commun Theory

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This article argues for the importance of a spatial perspective in critical communication studies. It suggests that a focus on spatial relations of power enables scholars of communication and culture to understand and theorize the complex ways in which identities are being reproduced in our current moment of globalization. The article suggests that, instead of theorizing cultural power only through the category of identity, we need to adopt a spatial perspective on power that may better enable us to theorize various relations of identity and culture.

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“…But perhaps cosmopolitan and localising projects are not necessarily mutually exclusive. ‘Our moment’, as Bruce Robbins commented in the early 1990s, ‘is that of the globalizing of such movements’ (1992: 183). More recently, Rapport has noted that globalisation ‘involves centrifugalism at the same time as centripetalism, religious fundamentalism, ethnic nationalism and identity politics as well as ecumenicism and humanism’ (2006: 23).…”

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Creole festivals and Afro-Creole cosmopolitanisms in Mauritius

Jeffery¹

2010

Social Anthropology

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Focusing ethnographically on the Creole festivals in Mauritius, this article examines coexisting cosmopolitan and localising processes in a non‐elite and rooted context. It outlines the marginalisation of Creoles in Mauritius before elucidating three processes evident in Afro‐Creole collective identification: cross‐continental inspiration from the ‘Creole world’ of the African diaspora; regional ethnic identification as Indian Ocean island Creoles with overlapping histories and shared cultural traditions; and the localising identity politics of differentiation of each ‘Creole culture’ as unique and rooted in a particular island or state.

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Comparative Cosmopolitanism

Cited by 79 publications

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International attention and multinational enterprise performance

International attention and multinational enterprise performance

Space Matters: The Power and Practice of Space

Creole festivals and Afro-Creole cosmopolitanisms in Mauritius

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