Knowledge Migration, Communication and Value Change

Managing individuals and organizations successfully in turbulent and highly diverse contexts requires, among others, a better understanding of commonalities and differences of these contexts, their unique demands and their changes over time. In particular, knowledge and knowledge flows across various kinds of boundaries, interaction processes among and between different types of individual and collective actors and the role of basic assumptions and action-related values play a key role. In this special issue of Cross Cultural Management, which provides a focused academic platform for encouraging research on cross-cultural aspects of management, work and organization, we would welcome empirical and conceptual papers in the following areas:

* Specific knowledge required for individual and organizational goal achievement in culturally mixed settings
* Boundaries inhibiting and promoting knowledge flows
* The role of knowledge migration for individual and organizational effectiveness
* Different forms of knowledge migration
* Specifics of communication processes in turbulent and culturally mixed environments
* The role of different forms of communication in knowledge migration processes
* New media and communication in culturally mixed settings
* The role of mass media in knowledge migration
* Convergence, divergence or stasis? Individual and collective values and their development over time
* The relationship of values and culture
* Value changes between generations -- myth, reality or ?
* Work-related values of young graduates and their implications for organizations and societies.


The special issue welcomes papers from a broad range of theoretical and methodological positions and is open to empirical as well as conceptual contributions related to the issues of knowledge migration, communication, and value change from the perspective of cross-cultural competence and management.

Additionally, selected papers submitted to the VIIIth IACCM Conference 2009 will be invited for publication in this special issue.

Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2009
Expected publication date: 2010

Submissions are made using Scholar One's Manuscript Central online submission system. This is accessible at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ccmij Please ensure that your submission complies with the journal's manuscript requirements which can be found on the journal homepage at: www.emeraldinsight.com/ccm.htm


Dr Katharina Chudzikowski,
Interdisciplinary Group for Management and Organisational Behaviour,
WirtschaftsuniversitÌt Wien, Althanstrasse 51, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Web site: www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/ivm
Tel: +43-1-313 36-4009
Fax: +43-1-313 36-90-4009
E-mail: Katharina.Chudzikowski@wu-wien.ac.at


Professor Gerhard Fink,
Research Institute for European Affairs,
WirtschaftsuniversitÌt Wien, Althanstrasse 39-45, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Web site: www.wu-wien.ac.at/wuw/institute/europainstitut/team/fink
Tel.: +43-1-313 36-4137
Fax: +43-1-313 36-90-4137
E-mail: gerhard.fink@wu-wien.ac.at


Professor Wolfgang Mayrhofer,
Interdisciplinary Group for Management and Organisational Behaviour,
WirtschaftsuniversitÌt Wien, Althanstrasse 51, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Web site: www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/ivm
Tel: +43-1-313 36-4554
Fax: +43-1-313 36-90-4554
E-mail: wolfgang.mayrhofer@wu-wien.ac.at