Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

6-25-2021

Publication Title

33rd Annual Association of Japanese Business Studies Conference Proceedings

Pages

1-31

Publisher Name

The Association of Japanese Business Studies

Publisher Location

Forest Grove, OR

Abstract

This article proposes a diagrammatic framework[1]to address the theoretical concept of cultural competence. Bridging prevalent concepts available in literature, it posits a simple yet versatile multi-level framework with two extremes to capture a spectrum of cultural specificities. Through a case study on a Japanese automobile conglomerate partly with European management, it concludes that cultural competence can be shown on a linear scale in the systematic framework. The findings advance the concept of cultural competence and the proposed model may be used as a foothold for future research possibly in any combination of cultures. This study is not to claim that different cultures are uncompromising but to consider how to reconcile them in a cross-cultural setting.

[1] The original framework was presented at the 31st Annual AJBS Minneapolis Conference in 2018. This article develops it to discuss the concept of cultural competence.

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Author Posting © The Association of Japanese Business Studies, 2021. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the Association of Japanese Business Studies for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in the 33rd Annual AJBS Conference Proceedings, July 2021. https://ajbs.org/product/2021-proceedings/

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