Peer-Reviewed Research

Reviewing a Half a Century of Measuring Cross-Cultural Competence: Aligning Theoretical Constructs and Empirical Measures

Tagged: Empirical Research
Richter, N. F., Schlaegel, C., Taras, V., Alon, I., & Bird, A. (2023)
International Business Review, 32(4), 102-122

Evaluates 68 cross-cultural competence instruments based on coverage of relevant cross-cultural capabilities, empirical evidence of reliability, validity, and measurement invariance, and evaluations from 160 subject matter experts.  Concludes that the CQ model and scale in Ang, et. al., is the strongest model across all three criteria.

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