Anthology from the year 2023 in the subject Business economics – Business Management, Corporate Governance, Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), language: English, abstract: Communication and collaboration across cultures and geographic distances can pose various challenges but also be enriching and fruitful. Increasingly, companies use virtual teams where members are dispersed worldwide, have limited face-to-face contact and work together using electronic communication media. Covid-19 made virtual collaboration still more common. This brought opportunities and challenges of enabling work from home and effectively managing staff from a distance. This book reports findings from a study tour to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, conducted with students from Germany and Taiwan. Subsidiaries of three German/European and three Taiwanese companies were visited. These topics are addressed:
• Identifying cultural differences and their impact
• Leadership and motivation across cultures
• Communication and collaboration across cultures
• Dealing with pandemic-induced home office
• Collaboration in distributed virtual/hybrid teams
• Leading distributed virtual/hybrid teams
Each of the eight chapters reviews the extant literature, reports findings from the study tour, and provides recommendations for practice.
Tentang Penulis
Dr. Chien-Chien Lo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
International Business at Providence University, Taiwan. She has served
as an Assistant Professor at China Medical University and Beijing Institute
of Technology, Zhuhai, in Mainland China. She received her Ph.D. in
Bilingual Education from Texas A&M University in the U.S.A., an MA
degree in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) from the
University of Central Oklahoma in the U.S.A., and a BA degree in
International Trade in Taiwan. With a cross-disciplinary learning
background and rich teaching experience of cross-strait exchanges, she
specializes in teaching innovative CLIL (Content and language integrated
learning), ESP (English for specific purposes), and EMI (English-Medium
Instruction) courses in the school of business management. Through longterm
frontline teaching practice, she has been awarded by the Taiwan
Ministry of Education's teaching practice research program for five
consecutive years since her innovative teaching concept can ignite
students' interest in learning and stimulate students' creativity.
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