Global Mindset

In the past two decades, global mindset has emerged as a key individual capability and a critical source of long‐term competitive advantage of firms. There are three major perspectives on global mindset: cultural, strategic, and multidimensional, each offering a different conceptualization of global mindset. As a result, there is still a considerable confusion about the core properties of global mindset, its dimensionality, and level of analysis. Recent works attempt to reconcile the myriad approaches to global mindset, suggesting that it is a highly complex individual‐level cognitive structure characterized by cosmopolitanism and cognitive complexity. As such, global mindset involves three complementary aspects: (i) an openness to and awareness of multiple spheres of meaning and action; (ii) complex representation and articulation of cultural and strategic dynamics; and (iii) mediation and integration of ideals and actions oriented both to the global and the local. These works also suggest that global mindset leads to effective managerial action in a global context because it affects the information processing capabilities of key decision makers.

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