Is the climate crisis our responsibility? What do we have to offer as cross-cultural management scholars? The way people and organizations relate to nature and the environment is very much our business. This is part of the cultures we purport to study. The way international managers manage cross-cultural difference, within a context of global-local power dynamics influences how MNEs approach these issues. If our scholarship really does have impact, as we say it does when assessed by our academic institutions, we have some culpability in the values and attitudes of managers and their organizations, the way they act towards local contexts, the impacts that they have on nature and the environment. We might be part of the problem. But we could also be part of the solution.
Terence Jackson 