Editorial: towards a collaborative understanding of intercultural engineering

Abstract: The articles in this special issue deal with the topic of cultural engineering in various contexts and from different perspectives, bringing together interculturalists, management scholars and engineering academics and professionals. Claude-Hélène Mayer emphasizes that intercultural competences are key competences in international engineering organisations. Her article is based on selected empirical findings from a multi-method research study. It focuses on cultural engineering in a specific Engineering organisation in South Africa and investigates how managers in an international and culturally diverse engineering environment define intercultural competence, how they cope with intercultural challenges in their daily work routine and how intercultural competence could be promoted within cultural engineering contexts. The contribution by Kirsten Nazarkiewicz focuses on the relevance of conversation as a learning tool to gain intercultural competence. Her paper reflects on communicat

Object Details

• Alternative title: Forderung nach einem kollaborativen Verständnis von interkultureller Ingenieursarbeit
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: interculture journal: Online-Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Studien ; 11 (2012) 18 ; 5-16

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2012
• Creator: Mahadevan, Jasmin ; Mayer, Claude-Hélène

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-452987
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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