IRCO - Centro Internacional de Investigación de Organizaciones
Investigación sobre la gestión estratégica de recursos humanos y su impacto en las organizaciones

Currently, the IRCO's cross-cultural management network is undertaking the TOL project which aims to measure Trust/OCB and Leadership competencies in 18 countries.

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Our long term vision  (PDF, 33 Kb) is to approach the complexity of human behavior in organizations, in an increasingly changing and global world. In this context, it intends to go in depth into those cross-cultural aspects that enrich both people's and organizations' lives. This is a way of serving the academic world, firms, and society in general.

This long term project will have the support of the organizational structure and means of IRCO (International Research Center on Organizations), and will collaborate closely with it, promoting its international projection.

Cross-cultural research has traditionally used cultural categories (such as power distance, or masculinity-feminity) to explain differences in behaviors and practices in different cultures. However, this research mainly consists of simple comparisons of results between two or few different cultures in order to find differences with the established models that have been developed in the Western world. The results so far are inconclusive, because this research has been conducted without a proper methodology to identify the underlying cross-cultural influence in the different relationships of the models. Our research is based on a new methodology called Hierarchical Linear Models  (PDF, 296 Kb) that allows for measurements at different levels of analysis. This new tool gives researchers the opportunity to understand how culture really influences different processes in organizations and how it significantly contributes to the quality of the research.

Leadership  (PDF, 51 Kb)

Motivation  (PDF, 54 Kb)

Trust in boss-subordinate Relationship  (PDF, 45 Kb)

Corporate Culture  (PDF, 37 Kb)

Organizational Citizenship Behavior  (PDF, 31 Kb)

Main Researcher: Prof. Pablo Cardona, Associate Professor of Managing People in Organizations. Ph.D. in Management, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Master of Business Administration, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, E-mail: cardona@iese.edu,  Pablo Cardona personal webpage

 

 

 

Coordinator: Helen Wilkinson, Ph.D. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
E-mail: HWilkinson@iese.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Country Researchers:

• Prof. Marisa Aguirre. PAD, Universidad de Piura, Lima, Perú.

• Prof. Esther Akinnukawe. Lagos Business School (Pan African University), Lagos, Nigeria.

• Prof. Cordula Barzantny. GROUPE ESC Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France.

• Assistant Prof. Jon Briscoe. Northem Illinois University College of Business, Illinois, United States of America.

• Prof. César Bullara. Instituto Superior de Empresa (ISE), Säo Paulo, Brasil.

• Prof. Mª Victoria Caparas. University of Asia & the Pacific School of Management, Manila, Phillipines.

• Assistant Prof. Dan Caprar. Australian School of Business (New South Wales University),  Sidney, Australia.

• Prof. Jean Luc Cerdin. ESSEC Business School, Paris, France.

• Prof .Dallied Charlemagne, Institut des Hautes Etudes – Afrique Business School, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

• Prof. Álvaro Espejo. Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), Santiago de Chile, Chile.

• Prof. Norihito Furuya. Institute of Global Business, Tokyo, Japan.

• Associate Prof. Tor Grenness. Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway.

• Prof. Alexandre Havard. European Center for Leadership Development, Moscow, Russia.

• Ph.D. Student Wei He. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.

• Researcher Konrad Jamro. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.

• Prof. Kathrin Koester. Heilbronn University, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

• Prof. Alma Lazo. IPADE, México DF, México.

• Assistant Prof. Yih Teen Lee. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.

• Research Assistant Borja Lleó. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.

• Prof. Alejandro Moreno. INALDE. Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, Colombia.

• Prof. Michael Morley. Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

• Prof. Winston Peraza. Universidad de Monteávila, Caracas, Venezuela.

• Prof. Vivian Myloni, University of Piraeus, Athens, Greece.

• Prof. Sadia Nadeem. National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan.

• Assistant Prof. Sebastian Reiche. IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.

• Prof. Alexey Svishchev. MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia.

• Assistant Prof. Scott Taylor. Boston University School of Management, Boston, United States of America.

• Assistant Dean Research Siobhan Tiernan, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.