Wittman, X., & Qin, Y. (2022). The Emergence of Chinese Global Executives. In International Leadership (pp. 301-320). Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden.
The paper has been presented at the SIETAR Europa Congress 22 in Malta and the book was published in Sept. 2022.
Abstract
With China’s expanding engagement in global economic affairs, there is an increasing demand for Chinese executives to take on international leadership roles and responsibilities. This emerging phenomenon has caught the attention of researchers worldwide. In this study, we apply the transvergence concept to an exploration of a new framework that characterizes effective leadership in a dynamic glocal context.
Our field research includes three case studies of Chinese executives whose leadership experiences will shed light on how Chinese executives incorporate cultural values from both East and West to deal with managerial issues. At the same time, the case studies reveal the key elements for effective leadership in today’s globalizing world, where different cultures meet and blend to form new and unique ones. The research findings suggest that transvergent leadership can be understood and identified in terms of personal traits and skills incorporated into the contextual dynamics that embody the dialectic of glocalization, which is characterized by simultaneous local responsiveness along with global integration.
