Jasmin Mahadevan
Biographic Data
| ID | 180361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jasmin Mahadevan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jasmin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahadevan |
| SIGNATURE | MAHADEVAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7178-8657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Investigating otherness, not difference: Should saming and othering be the focus of the discipline? Implications for a contemporary cross-cultural management studies
A phenomenon-based approach to handling multiple paradigms: Investigating power in international knowledge transfer through active categorization
In this article, we propose a phenomenon-based approach as a suitable way of handling multiple paradigms in practice. We implement the phenomenon-based approach by means of active categorization to be differentiated into three steps – differentiation, integration, and patterning – and apply this approach to international knowledge transfer (IKT) in multinational enterprises (MNE). Via differentiation, we classify the IKT literature into six theor…
Migration, ethnic otherness and the ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany: Why more conflict is better integration, and how this reconfigures positive cross-cultural management scholarship
Otherness in contemporary cross-cultural management (CCM) studies often emerges from migration and refugee movements, with ensuing integration challenges. In this context, ‘difference’ is perceived as being more problematic than enriching, and this makes it difficult to contribute to integration via a Positive Organizational Scholarship. Introducing the sociology of conflict, I propose that the success of a positive cross-cultural management enga…
Intercultural training as paradigm juxtaposition, and the need to differentiate critical cross-cultural management studies: The example of ‘managing Muslim minorities at work’
Cross-cultural management (CCM) studies is a multi-paradigmatic discipline which is commonly differentiated into functionalist (positivist), interpretive and critical, and intercultural training is its applied version in practice. Paradigms are ‘lenses’ from which to view reality. If paradigms are juxtaposed – considered in light of each other – apparent contractions across paradigms might be resolved and metatheoretical insights across multiple …
Have German leaders become ‘sentimental’? A qualitative study of novel leadership practices and expectations since Covid
This qualitative study investigates the leadership implications of COVID-induced work-from-home in the German context. We find that sentiment has become part of post-pandemic leadership expectations and identify the ‘coaching leader’, on lower leadership levels, and in relation to one’s peers, as a new style. The increased relevance of empathy, sentiment and development is in contrast to the leadership expectations which project GLOBE has establi…
Intersectionality as a conceptual lens for advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in international business studies: Newer Developments From Critical Cross-Cultural Management Studies and Their Ins…
Purpose Using intersectionality and introducing newer developments from critical cross-cultural management studies, this paper aims to discuss how diversity is applicable to changing cultural contexts. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a conceptual paper built upon relevant empirical research findings from critical cross-cultural management studies. Findings By applying intersectionality as a conceptual lens, this paper underscores the pra…
Beyond politics of difference: Intersectionality across time and place
Cultural intelligence and Covid-induced virtual teams: Towards a conceptual framework for cross-cultural management studies
This article proposes a creative approach to cultural intelligence, as an individual’s capability to function effectively under the condition of cultural diversity. Virtual team collaboration, as stimulated by the COVID-19 pandemic, constitutes a novel, culturally diverse context. We explore how cultural intelligence may shed light onto the requirements of post-COVID virtual and hybrid team collaboration. The contribution of this article to cross…
What connects positivism and interpretivism in cross-cultural management studies: Genealogy as a method for re-ordering disciplinary knowledge
Cross-cultural management (CCM) studies is the discipline that investigates the interrelations between culture, management and organization, and ensuing implications. Like all disciplines, it is built upon certain presumed ‘disciplinary truths’, such as paradigmatic delineations, and assumptions of how culture should be studied differently within different paradigms. Such presumed truths easily become ‘trends’, potentially even disciplinary closu…
An auto-ethnographic narrative of corporate intercultural training: Insights from the genealogical reordering of the material
Intercultural training is common practice in many organizations. By cross-cultural management scholars, intercultural training is often critiqued as overly simplistic. The argument is that intercultural trainers lack sophisticated cross-cultural management knowledge. Based on 6 years of ethnographic and auto-ethnographic research, I argue that such a categorical rejection of intercultural training practice as inferior functions as a closure mecha…
Methods of Critical Cross-Cultural Management
Ethnography and Cross-Cultural Management
Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management: An Intersectional Approach to Culture
This case draws on a critical approach to cross-cultural management and explores the reproduction and academic legitimization of intersecting categories, in-built in the different stages of making and shaping a corporate language policy in a Danish-owned multinational corporation. The case centres on the relationship between a manager and myself as an academic expert. I explore how and why my prereflexive actions cemented rather than critically c…
Muslim Minorities, Workplace Diversity and Reflexive HRM
Muslim Minorities, Workplace Diversity and Reflexive HRM
Expecting “the Arab world: Imaginative Geographies as Dominant Diversity Frames
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the dangers of Orientalist framing. Orientalism (Said, 1979/2003) shows how “the West” actually creates “the Orient” as an inferior opposite to affirm itself, for instance by using imaginative geographical frames such as “East” and “West” (Said, 1993). Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with the members of a German-Tunisian project team in research engineering. The i…
Why is cross-cultural management scholarship blind to power relations? Investigating ethnicity, language, gender and religion in power-laden contexts
Understanding the process of intercultural negotiations through liminality: Insights on biculturality, marginality and cultural expertise from a Sino-German business context
By introducing anthropological ritual theory, particularly the concept of liminality, this article contributes to a process-oriented view on intercultural negotiations and highlights the importance of bicultural or marginal individuals for their success. These individuals are understood as experts of the intercultural transition (ICT), which needs to be made for a successful negotiation process. Focusing on a specific Sino-German context, this st…
Caste, purity, and female dress in IT India: Embodied norm violation as reflexive ethnographic practice
This article proposes the methodology of embodied norm violation for overcoming the dichotomy between cognitive reflexivity and embodied ethnographic practice. The methodology is derived from the author's own embodied experiences as a female Indo-German ethnographer in the field of IT India. For exemplifying the methodology and its potential, this article focusses on two field-related phenomena, namely adhering to a vegetarian diet and dressing t…
Travelling inner landscapes: A Longitudinal Study on Transcultural Identity Development
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate insights into the identity construction and development of a selected single male individual in Cape Town, South Africa. It aims at increasing the in-depth understanding of the complexities of identity construction in a transcultural setting and provides emic perspectives on a micro-individual level over a period of ten years. Design/methodology/approach – This research study is based on the p…
Researching migrants who hold nomadic identities: Analysing multi-level dynamic discourses of power
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the researcher can critically reflect on his/her own identities when interacting with participants who hold nomadic identities and analyses the dynamic discourses of power unfolding at different levels. Design/methodology/approach – Autobiographical narrative data derived from a research study on highly educated refugees in the UK are analysed in order to highlight the multi-level dynamic disc…
Nomadic identities and workplace diversity: Implications for Theory and Practice
Expatriates’ and teenagers’ nomadic identities: An Intersectional Analysis
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the influence of the different relations of power embedded in social structures on the construction of nomadic identities at the individual level. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a qualitative approach. The authors interview expatriates adjusting to an international audit firm in Luxembourg and young in geographical itinerancy. A multilevel analysis based on intersectionality let …
Third-country graduates and their transition to the German labor market: Understanding dominant identity categories, strangerness and agency in context
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how non-EU university graduates (third-country graduates, TCGs) experience the intended transition to the German labor market. Through a critical analysis across multiple contexts, the authors intend to increase the reflexive scope of HRM research and practice. Design/methodology/approach – The explorative study is based on social constructivism. It relies on qualitative data, specifically pro…
Performing interplay through intercultural simulations: Insights on tacit culture in a Taiwanese–German management team
Cross-cultural management (CCM) needs to move beyond the paradigmatic schism between positivist and interpretative research. What both paradigms share is the need to understand a specific configuration of culture in context. This article suggests multi-paradigm research through interplay on cultural performances as a means of acknowledging both paradigms. Data is based on action research in a Taiwanese–German management team. The contribution of …
Why is cross-cultural management scholarship blind to power relations? Investigating ethnicity, language, gender and religion in power-laden contexts
Caste, purity, and female dress in IT India: Embodied norm violation as reflexive ethnographic practice
This article proposes the methodology of embodied norm violation for overcoming the dichotomy between cognitive reflexivity and embodied ethnographic practice. The methodology is derived from the author's own embodied experiences as a female Indo-German ethnographer in the field of IT India. For exemplifying the methodology and its potential, this article focusses on two field-related phenomena, namely adhering to a vegetarian diet and dressing t…
Intersectionality as a conceptual lens for advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in international business studies: Newer Developments From Critical Cross-Cultural Management Studies and Their Ins…
Purpose Using intersectionality and introducing newer developments from critical cross-cultural management studies, this paper aims to discuss how diversity is applicable to changing cultural contexts. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a conceptual paper built upon relevant empirical research findings from critical cross-cultural management studies. Findings By applying intersectionality as a conceptual lens, this paper underscores the pra…
Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management: An Intersectional Approach to Culture
This case draws on a critical approach to cross-cultural management and explores the reproduction and academic legitimization of intersecting categories, in-built in the different stages of making and shaping a corporate language policy in a Danish-owned multinational corporation. The case centres on the relationship between a manager and myself as an academic expert. I explore how and why my prereflexive actions cemented rather than critically c…
Performing interplay through intercultural simulations: Insights on tacit culture in a Taiwanese–German management team
Cross-cultural management (CCM) needs to move beyond the paradigmatic schism between positivist and interpretative research. What both paradigms share is the need to understand a specific configuration of culture in context. This article suggests multi-paradigm research through interplay on cultural performances as a means of acknowledging both paradigms. Data is based on action research in a Taiwanese–German management team. The contribution of …
Are engineers religious? An interpretative approach to cross-cultural conflict and collective identities
This article views culture as collective identities from an interpretative, sense-making perspective. It analyses religion-based cross-cultural conflict through the example of two ethnographic studies of multicultural high-tech organizations undergoing change. Specifically, it looks at professional identity and the practice of religion among a diverse group of highly qualified technical employees. The aim is to show when and how difference in rel…
Migration, ethnic otherness and the ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany: Why more conflict is better integration, and how this reconfigures positive cross-cultural management scholarship
Otherness in contemporary cross-cultural management (CCM) studies often emerges from migration and refugee movements, with ensuing integration challenges. In this context, ‘difference’ is perceived as being more problematic than enriching, and this makes it difficult to contribute to integration via a Positive Organizational Scholarship. Introducing the sociology of conflict, I propose that the success of a positive cross-cultural management enga…
What connects positivism and interpretivism in cross-cultural management studies: Genealogy as a method for re-ordering disciplinary knowledge
Cross-cultural management (CCM) studies is the discipline that investigates the interrelations between culture, management and organization, and ensuing implications. Like all disciplines, it is built upon certain presumed ‘disciplinary truths’, such as paradigmatic delineations, and assumptions of how culture should be studied differently within different paradigms. Such presumed truths easily become ‘trends’, potentially even disciplinary closu…
Translating nodes of power through reflexive ethnographic writing
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show the benefit of conceptualizing reflexive ethnographic writing as translation processes across circuits of power that involve researcher, field and audience. For this purpose, a model of translating nodes of power in the ethnographic triangle is developed.Design/methodology/approachThe author reflects upon organizational ethnography theoretically.FindingsEthnographic meaning emerges between researcher, f…
Cultural intelligence and Covid-induced virtual teams: Towards a conceptual framework for cross-cultural management studies
This article proposes a creative approach to cultural intelligence, as an individual’s capability to function effectively under the condition of cultural diversity. Virtual team collaboration, as stimulated by the COVID-19 pandemic, constitutes a novel, culturally diverse context. We explore how cultural intelligence may shed light onto the requirements of post-COVID virtual and hybrid team collaboration. The contribution of this article to cross…
A phenomenon-based approach to handling multiple paradigms: Investigating power in international knowledge transfer through active categorization
In this article, we propose a phenomenon-based approach as a suitable way of handling multiple paradigms in practice. We implement the phenomenon-based approach by means of active categorization to be differentiated into three steps – differentiation, integration, and patterning – and apply this approach to international knowledge transfer (IKT) in multinational enterprises (MNE). Via differentiation, we classify the IKT literature into six theor…
Intercultural training as paradigm juxtaposition, and the need to differentiate critical cross-cultural management studies: The example of ‘managing Muslim minorities at work’
Cross-cultural management (CCM) studies is a multi-paradigmatic discipline which is commonly differentiated into functionalist (positivist), interpretive and critical, and intercultural training is its applied version in practice. Paradigms are ‘lenses’ from which to view reality. If paradigms are juxtaposed – considered in light of each other – apparent contractions across paradigms might be resolved and metatheoretical insights across multiple …
Understanding the process of intercultural negotiations through liminality: Insights on biculturality, marginality and cultural expertise from a Sino-German business context
By introducing anthropological ritual theory, particularly the concept of liminality, this article contributes to a process-oriented view on intercultural negotiations and highlights the importance of bicultural or marginal individuals for their success. These individuals are understood as experts of the intercultural transition (ICT), which needs to be made for a successful negotiation process. Focusing on a specific Sino-German context, this st…
Expatriates’ and teenagers’ nomadic identities: An Intersectional Analysis
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the influence of the different relations of power embedded in social structures on the construction of nomadic identities at the individual level. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a qualitative approach. The authors interview expatriates adjusting to an international audit firm in Luxembourg and young in geographical itinerancy. A multilevel analysis based on intersectionality let …
Third-country graduates and their transition to the German labor market: Understanding dominant identity categories, strangerness and agency in context
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how non-EU university graduates (third-country graduates, TCGs) experience the intended transition to the German labor market. Through a critical analysis across multiple contexts, the authors intend to increase the reflexive scope of HRM research and practice. Design/methodology/approach – The explorative study is based on social constructivism. It relies on qualitative data, specifically pro…
Reflexive guidelines for writing organizational culture
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide guidelines for reflexive ethnographic writing that transports the researcher's claims of having conducted participatory reflexive research to her audience. Design/methodology/approach Auto‐ethnographic vignettes from the author's own ethnographic research are used to establish five levels of reflexivity for writing organizational ethnography. Findings The author argues that the audience needs to be …
Are engineers religious? An interpretative approach to cross-cultural conflict and collective identities
This article views culture as collective identities from an interpretative, sense-making perspective. It analyses religion-based cross-cultural conflict through the example of two ethnographic studies of multicultural high-tech organizations undergoing change. Specifically, it looks at professional identity and the practice of religion among a diverse group of highly qualified technical employees. The aim is to show when and how difference in rel…
Translating nodes of power through reflexive ethnographic writing
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show the benefit of conceptualizing reflexive ethnographic writing as translation processes across circuits of power that involve researcher, field and audience. For this purpose, a model of translating nodes of power in the ethnographic triangle is developed.Design/methodology/approachThe author reflects upon organizational ethnography theoretically.FindingsEthnographic meaning emerges between researcher, f…
Performing interplay through intercultural simulations: Insights on tacit culture in a Taiwanese–German management team
Cross-cultural management (CCM) needs to move beyond the paradigmatic schism between positivist and interpretative research. What both paradigms share is the need to understand a specific configuration of culture in context. This article suggests multi-paradigm research through interplay on cultural performances as a means of acknowledging both paradigms. Data is based on action research in a Taiwanese–German management team. The contribution of …
Understanding the process of intercultural negotiations through liminality: Insights on biculturality, marginality and cultural expertise from a Sino-German business context
By introducing anthropological ritual theory, particularly the concept of liminality, this article contributes to a process-oriented view on intercultural negotiations and highlights the importance of bicultural or marginal individuals for their success. These individuals are understood as experts of the intercultural transition (ICT), which needs to be made for a successful negotiation process. Focusing on a specific Sino-German context, this st…
Caste, purity, and female dress in IT India: Embodied norm violation as reflexive ethnographic practice
This article proposes the methodology of embodied norm violation for overcoming the dichotomy between cognitive reflexivity and embodied ethnographic practice. The methodology is derived from the author's own embodied experiences as a female Indo-German ethnographer in the field of IT India. For exemplifying the methodology and its potential, this article focusses on two field-related phenomena, namely adhering to a vegetarian diet and dressing t…
Travelling inner landscapes: A Longitudinal Study on Transcultural Identity Development
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate insights into the identity construction and development of a selected single male individual in Cape Town, South Africa. It aims at increasing the in-depth understanding of the complexities of identity construction in a transcultural setting and provides emic perspectives on a micro-individual level over a period of ten years. Design/methodology/approach – This research study is based on the p…
Researching migrants who hold nomadic identities: Analysing multi-level dynamic discourses of power
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the researcher can critically reflect on his/her own identities when interacting with participants who hold nomadic identities and analyses the dynamic discourses of power unfolding at different levels. Design/methodology/approach – Autobiographical narrative data derived from a research study on highly educated refugees in the UK are analysed in order to highlight the multi-level dynamic disc…
Nomadic identities and workplace diversity: Implications for Theory and Practice
Expatriates’ and teenagers’ nomadic identities: An Intersectional Analysis
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the influence of the different relations of power embedded in social structures on the construction of nomadic identities at the individual level. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a qualitative approach. The authors interview expatriates adjusting to an international audit firm in Luxembourg and young in geographical itinerancy. A multilevel analysis based on intersectionality let …
Third-country graduates and their transition to the German labor market: Understanding dominant identity categories, strangerness and agency in context
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how non-EU university graduates (third-country graduates, TCGs) experience the intended transition to the German labor market. Through a critical analysis across multiple contexts, the authors intend to increase the reflexive scope of HRM research and practice. Design/methodology/approach – The explorative study is based on social constructivism. It relies on qualitative data, specifically pro…
Why is cross-cultural management scholarship blind to power relations? Investigating ethnicity, language, gender and religion in power-laden contexts
Muslim Minorities, Workplace Diversity and Reflexive HRM
Muslim Minorities, Workplace Diversity and Reflexive HRM
Expecting “the Arab world: Imaginative Geographies as Dominant Diversity Frames
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the dangers of Orientalist framing. Orientalism (Said, 1979/2003) shows how “the West” actually creates “the Orient” as an inferior opposite to affirm itself, for instance by using imaginative geographical frames such as “East” and “West” (Said, 1993). Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews were conducted with the members of a German-Tunisian project team in research engineering. The i…
Cases in Critical Cross-Cultural Management: An Intersectional Approach to Culture
This case draws on a critical approach to cross-cultural management and explores the reproduction and academic legitimization of intersecting categories, in-built in the different stages of making and shaping a corporate language policy in a Danish-owned multinational corporation. The case centres on the relationship between a manager and myself as an academic expert. I explore how and why my prereflexive actions cemented rather than critically c…
Methods of Critical Cross-Cultural Management
Ethnography and Cross-Cultural Management
An auto-ethnographic narrative of corporate intercultural training: Insights from the genealogical reordering of the material
Intercultural training is common practice in many organizations. By cross-cultural management scholars, intercultural training is often critiqued as overly simplistic. The argument is that intercultural trainers lack sophisticated cross-cultural management knowledge. Based on 6 years of ethnographic and auto-ethnographic research, I argue that such a categorical rejection of intercultural training practice as inferior functions as a closure mecha…
Beyond politics of difference: Intersectionality across time and place
Cultural intelligence and Covid-induced virtual teams: Towards a conceptual framework for cross-cultural management studies
This article proposes a creative approach to cultural intelligence, as an individual’s capability to function effectively under the condition of cultural diversity. Virtual team collaboration, as stimulated by the COVID-19 pandemic, constitutes a novel, culturally diverse context. We explore how cultural intelligence may shed light onto the requirements of post-COVID virtual and hybrid team collaboration. The contribution of this article to cross…
What connects positivism and interpretivism in cross-cultural management studies: Genealogy as a method for re-ordering disciplinary knowledge
Cross-cultural management (CCM) studies is the discipline that investigates the interrelations between culture, management and organization, and ensuing implications. Like all disciplines, it is built upon certain presumed ‘disciplinary truths’, such as paradigmatic delineations, and assumptions of how culture should be studied differently within different paradigms. Such presumed truths easily become ‘trends’, potentially even disciplinary closu…
Investigating otherness, not difference: Should saming and othering be the focus of the discipline? Implications for a contemporary cross-cultural management studies
A phenomenon-based approach to handling multiple paradigms: Investigating power in international knowledge transfer through active categorization
In this article, we propose a phenomenon-based approach as a suitable way of handling multiple paradigms in practice. We implement the phenomenon-based approach by means of active categorization to be differentiated into three steps – differentiation, integration, and patterning – and apply this approach to international knowledge transfer (IKT) in multinational enterprises (MNE). Via differentiation, we classify the IKT literature into six theor…
Migration, ethnic otherness and the ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany: Why more conflict is better integration, and how this reconfigures positive cross-cultural management scholarship
Otherness in contemporary cross-cultural management (CCM) studies often emerges from migration and refugee movements, with ensuing integration challenges. In this context, ‘difference’ is perceived as being more problematic than enriching, and this makes it difficult to contribute to integration via a Positive Organizational Scholarship. Introducing the sociology of conflict, I propose that the success of a positive cross-cultural management enga…
Sociology (25 works) · Anthropology (18 works) · International Student and Expatriate Challenges (17 works) · Social science (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · Epistemology (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Qualitative research (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works)