INTERACTIONS OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AND INTERNATIONALIZATION ON THE EXAMPLE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES: AN EXPERT EVALUATION (VZŤAH INTERKULTÚRNEJ KOMPETENCIE A INTERNACIONALIZÁCIE NA PRÍKLADE MALÝCH A STREDNÝCH FIRIEM: EXPERTNÉ HODNOTENIE)

Jolita Vveinhardt () and Jurate Dabravalskyte ()
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Jolita Vveinhardt: Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University
Jurate Dabravalskyte: Faculty of Economics and Management, Vytautas Magnus University

Medzinarodne vztahy (Journal of International Relations), 2015, vol. 13, issue 2, 167-188

Abstract: Until now very little has been spoken in Central and Eastern European countries about the importance of intercultural competence in conjunction with the process of internationalization. The present article deals with the interaction of intercultural competence and internationalization on the grounds of the answers given by the experts from small and medium Lithuanian enterprises. As the research results show, there is a lack of theoretical as well as practical training in the level of intercultural communication for employees of various organizations. Human intercultural competence strongly depends on an individual who is perceived as personality. Developed intercultural competence would assist in successful processes of internationalization and save both time and finance. (Vzťahu medzi interkultúrnou kompetenciou a internacionalizáciou hospodárskych vzťahov sa v štátoch strednej a východnej Európy doposiaľ nevenovala dostatočná pozornosť. Predkladaný článok si kladie za cieľ vyplniť túto medzeru v literatúre a preskúmať uvedený vzťah na základe odpovedí expertov z litovských malých a stredných podnikov. Výsledky výskumu ukazujú, že v podnikoch vo všeobecnosti existuje nedostatok teoretických aj praktických tréningov interkultúrnych zručností. Interkultúrna kompetencia v ľudskej komunikácii pritom silno závisí od osobnosti jednotlivca. Jej rozvoj má potenciál zvýšiť úspech procesov internacionalizácie a ušetriť firmám tak čas ako aj finančné prostriedky.)

Keywords: intercultural competence; internationalization; small and medium enterprises; globalization; foreign markets; international development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M12 M14 M16 M19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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