Cross-Cultural Collaborative Research: Toward Reflexivity

Easterby‐Smith, Mark; Malina, Danusia

doi:10.5465/256875

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“…Tsui [4] (p. 5) observed that "Chinese scholars are smart and quickly learn how to apply research methods, but this does not mean that they have necessarily understood the underlying epistemology or ontology". If ontological and epistemological differences across cultures pose challenges in cross-border collaboration [17,18], Tsui's observation suggests that such differences could stem from one party's failure to understand "the underlying epistemology or ontology" of the research methodology that both parties agree to adopt.…”

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“…Thus, we had: "Ways of thinking" "(Different) values" "Cross cultural communication is not easy sometimes" "Interested in different issues" "Differences in cultural backgrounds, especially in the social sciences research" "To persuade them that the phenomenon under study is significant in China, and to make them interested" "Theoretical model/contribution and the practical meaning to Chinese management" These comments point to potential divergence in the research issues that may be of interest and practical relevance for CMAs and OMAs; at a deeper level, they may also reflect cross-cultural differences in ideology, ontology, and epistemology (e.g., [17][18][19]). …”

Section: Cmas' Perspectives On Challenges In Collaborating With Omasmentioning

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“…OMAs, on the other hand, through participating in IACMR's initiatives, are supporting CMAs' as well as their own situated learning, for the engagement leads them to new phenomena in the Chinese context and helps them develop indigenous perspectives to understand complex cultural-historical situations and overcome U.S.-centrism in research topics and methods [17,24]. (After all, according to Lave and Wenger [33], all members of a community of practice, varying in their level of expertise, are engaged in peripheral participation in the community.)…”

Section: Chinese Social Sciences "Moving Towards the World" And Cmas'mentioning

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“…Benefits of international collaboration, such as enhancing research performance and output, boosting citation statistics, and broadening research horizons, have been widely acknowledged [6,12,15,16]. On the other hand, the challenges of cross-border research collaboration are also well recognized and may include cost in time and resources, inconvenience in communication caused by physical distance (even though the Internet has been a major facilitator of communication), conflicting aims, differing institutional systems, issue of trust, power relations, linguistic and ideological boundaries, and ontological and epistemological differences across cultures [14,[17][18][19].…”

Section: International Research Collaboration and An "Asymmetrical Stmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Abstract:As a response to intensified globalization, international research collaboration has become common in the social sciences. This paper reports a study that examined what Chinese management academics and their overseas counterparts perceived to be the benefits and challenges arising from research collaboration with each other. Data collected with two parallel questionnaires administered, respectively, to 114 Chinese and 30 overseas management academics revealed a variety of perceived benefits relating mainly to Chinese and overseas academics' complementing strengths. Analysis of the same data also identified an array of perceived challenges stemming from a combination of cultural, epistemological, ideological, linguistic, institutional, and relational differences. Our study generated insights to be drawn upon in policy-making and in the coordination of international research collaboration.

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“…The importance of researchers being the same nationality as a studied group and thereby understanding their culture and past experience has been noted previously by Easterby-Smith and Malina (1999). In addition, Temple and Koterba (2009) argued that Polish migrants' use of language is linked to their identity and lifestyle.…”

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This paper examines the relationship between migrants' social networks, the processes of language acquisition and tourism employment. Data collected using netnography and interviews are used to identify the strategies that Polish workers in the UK use to develop their language skills. The paper highlights the roles played by co-workers, co-nationals and customers in migrants' language learning, both in the physical spaces of work and the virtual spaces of internet forums. It also shows how migrant workers exchange knowledge about the use of English during different stages of their migration careers: prior to leaving their country of origin and getting a job, during their employment and after leaving their job. Implications for academic inquiry and human resource management practice are outlined.

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A labour of love: Cross‐cultural research collaboration between Australia and Indonesia

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Novel combinations of global conditions, issues under investigation and research alliances require constant reassessment of how to conduct cross‐cultural research. Here we recount an exploratory investigation considering cross‐cultural research between Australian and Indonesian researchers. This paper sets out a range of considerations for practitioners of cross‐cultural research between our two countries. This investigation supports intentions to develop trans‐disciplinary climate change adaptation research but is applicable across multiple research topics and disciplines. We engaged a small multi‐disciplinary mix of researchers, from both countries, conducted two initial focus groups, and subsequently involved participants in drafting of this paper as an exploration of how being cross cultural could manifest. We highlight that cross‐cultural collaborations occur in environments of both cultural differences and power differences. Four main strategies emerged for dealing with the challenges (or opportunities): working respectfully, being reflective of cross‐cultural research practice, being flexible, and learning about culture. Overarching these strategies, we found cross‐cultural research requires considerable extra (long term) effort to tackle and that this is sustained by researchers' intrinsic motives to care for people and place, making this type of research a distinctive labour of love. Finally, we found similarities between cross‐cultural research and climate change adaptation research (even when conducted within one country) where both endeavours call for boundaries of places, cultures and disciplines to be crossed in order to effectively engage with complex topics and environments. Negotiating the liminalities here often defies set formulas and requires a willingness to engage with and ‘muddle through’ the messiness. Our findings will be of value to those undertaking cross‐cultural research across a wide range of issues.

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Cross-Cultural Collaborative Research: Toward Reflexivity

Cited by 173 publications

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A labour of love: Cross‐cultural research collaboration between Australia and Indonesia

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