Internationalizing the Curriculum in Organizational Psychology
Since the days of silk roads and spice routes, international commerce has been essential to business. Today, from air travel to the Internet, advances in technology have served to make the business world smaller. Yet, despite the real world's march toward
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Richard L. Griffith • Lori Foster Thompson Brigitte K. Armon Editors
Internationalizing the Curriculum in Organizational Psychology
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Editors Richard L. Griffith Institute for Cross Cultural Management The Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne Florida USA
Brigitte K. Armon Institute for Cross Cultural Management The Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne Florida USA
Lori Foster Thompson North Carolina State University Raleigh North Carolina USA
ISBN 978-1-4614-9401-0 ISBN 978-1-4614-9402-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-9402-7 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013954439 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Navigating the Age of Internationalization The history of humankind can be roughly split into two narratives (Fernández-Armesto, 2006). The first story concerns the drive to seek out new territories. Shortly after standing erect for the first time, Homo sapiens began to leave East Africa behind and migrated to every habitable portion of the planet. For more than 150,000 years early explorers traversed landmasses, open seas, and ice bridges to found new communities and take advantage of the resources specific to those regions, set
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