Does immigration challenge the identities, values, and cultural diversity of receiving societies? This paper addresses this question by analyzing the impact of immigration on cultural diversity in Europe between 2004 and 2018. It combines regional cultural diversity indices derived from the...

Objective The aim of the article is to analyse the impact of globalisation on managing cultural diversity in organisations, considering two approaches: multiculturalism and interculturalism. The article seeks to identify the key challenges faced by organisations in a globalised world and assess...

This study reveals the pivotal impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on global variation in the degree of cultural diversity within ethnic and national populations. Drawing on novel diversity measures - encompassing folkloric and musical traditions among indigenous ethnic groups, as...

This study reveals the pivotal impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on global variation in the degree of cultural diversity within ethnic and national populations. Drawing on novel diversity measures—encompassing folkloric and musical traditions among indigenous ethnic groups, as...

Dedicated to a confluence of issues of our times, `Cross-culture, Multiculturalism, and Migration,’ this volume addresses a necessary and very current desire of our society regarding the need for people to prove their lifestyle, culture and religious traditions to others, in while facing the...

Diese Open-Access-Publikation greift den aktuellen Forschungsstand zu kultureller Diversität in der Teamarbeit auf und vertieft die Prozessperspektive. Teamprozesse werden als zusammenhängende, strukturbildende Aktivitäten verstanden und als ausschlaggebend für die Diversitätsmanifestation...

This open access short reader provides a compelling introduction to research on migrant transnationalism. The short reader focuses on the significant area of remittances (in financial terms). However, attention is also paid to political, social, cultural and religious transfers and exchanges –...

Words and Facts: A Glossary for the Cultural System -- Culture as a Process: The Cultural Value Chain -- Cultural Production: A Complex and Delicate Factory -- The Demand for Culture and its Dynamics -- The Design of Cultural Policy: Is there Life beyond Subsidies? -- The Fallout of Cultural...

This chapter discusses the evolution of cultural diversity in organizational theories and management literature, emphasizing its emergence in the 1980s, various scholarly perspectives on culture, its intersection with diversity management, and the contemporary shift towards individual inclusion...

Multiculturalism at the individual level has been conceptualized and measured in various ways, but a comprehensive review of the literature across five disciplines defines it as “the degree to which someone has knowledge of, identification with, and internalization of more than one societal...

Multicultural individuals, also known as biculturals or multiculturals, are individuals who possess knowledge of, identify with, and internalize more than one culture. Early research on multicultural individuals has revealed cognitive and behavioral patterns that diverge from their monocultural...

The importance of cultural diversity at work keeps increasing due to several reasons like immigration, globalisation of business, diversity initiatives, and the need for creativity and innovation. To clarify the term cultural diversity, the entry starts with a definition of cultural diversity...

This chapter provides an overview of multicultural policies in five countries that exemplify the diversity of approaches states have taken to engage with their culturally diverse populations. While in all cases, multiculturalism entails recognition of all cultural groups and making...

Deutschland gehört zu den wichtigsten Einwanderungsländern weltweit. Kulturelle Vielfalt prägt die Gesellschaft mehr denn je, doch in der Bundesverwaltung sind Eingewanderte und ihre Nachkommen nur in geringem Maße repräsentiert. Welche Ursachen stehen einer weiteren Öffnung entgegen?...

Despite the past centuries' economic setbacks and challenges, are there reasons for optimism about Africa's economic prospects? We provide a conceptual framework and empirical evidence that show how the nature of African society has led to three sets of unrecognized "latent assets." First,...

This chapter addresses the normative and spatial dimensions of sovereignty in a society characterized by cultural diversity, social fragmentation, and ideological conflict. The thesis of this chapter is that in mediating these tensions, decision makers and the courts often use the 'ethics of...

Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic...

We investigate within a model of cultural transmission how policies or shocks that affect social diversity within a population affect social cohesion and segregation. We develop the concept of `bridging identity', an individual trait that: (i) positively affects utility in culturally diverse...

"Brave new work! If that has a familiar ring, it is no doubt because of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world . Published in 1932, Huxley's classic novel depicted a dystopian society based on the principles upon which Henry Ford's assembly line was built: Efficiency, mass production, conformity,...

Der Sonderband beleuchtet den Zusammenhang von Migration und Demokratie aus konzeptuellen und empirischen Perspektiven, um die Herausforderungen und Chancen der zunehmenden Politisierung des Themenfeldes umfassend einordnen und bewerten zu können. Im ersten Teil werden die strukturellen...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Intercultural Proficiency Matters -- Chapter 2: Understanding Cultural Differences -- Chapter 3: Communicating Across Cultures -- Chapter 4: Dealing with Acculturative Stress and Cultural Adjustment -- Chapter 5: Navigating Cultural Diversity with Intercultural...

Navigating Corporate Cultures From Within offers a unique perspective on the management of headquarter-subsidiary-host market relationships with important insights on how to align corporate values with a localized mindset among culturally diverse employees and across a global enterprise. The...

This paper conducts a systematic quantitative study of cultural convergence and divergence in the United States over time. Using the General Social Survey (1972-2016), we assess whether cultural values have grown more or less heterogeneous, both overall and between groups. Groups are defined...

We investigate within a model of cultural transmission the conditions under which increased social diversity within a population - e.g. due to the inflow of immigrants - raise the potential for conflict as opposed to harmonious social diversity. Drawing on evidence from psychological studies, we...

Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic...

Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic...

Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic...