CCBM–TRAILS: Cross-Cultural Business and Virtual Team Communication Training Platform
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https://doi.org/10.7250/eb.2013.005Keywords:
Intercultural Management, International Business Coaching and Training, Organizational Development, Virtual Team TrainingAbstract
TRAILS is a cross-cultural business and virtual team communication training and eLearning platform based on a highly experienced blended learning methodology. It consists of analysis, awareness and training tools. It is the result of the current research and development at the M2C Institute of Applied Media Technology and Culture Bremen and the Centre for Intercultural Management of the University of Applied Sciences Bremen. The project is a result of the “Smart Cities – Smart Culture – Smart Humans” strategy of the European “Think BETA – Evolution of Smart Cities” think tank for research and development, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research – International Office (BMBF).
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Lipnack, Jessica; Stamps, Jeffrey: Virtual Teams: People Working across Boundaries with Technology. Second Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Herrmann, Dorothea; Hüneke, Knut; Rohrberg, Andrea, Führung auf Distanz – Mit virtuellen Teams zum Erfolg. Wiesbaden: Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler, 2006.
Al-Ani, Ban; Horspool, Agnes; Bligh, C. Michelle, Collaborating with ‘virtual strangers’: Towards developing a framework for leadership in distributed teams. In: SAGE journals, Leadership August 2011, Vol. 7 (3), 2011, pp. 235, 219-249.
Deardorff, Darla, Interkulturelle Kompetenz –Schlüsselkompetenz des 21. Jahrhunderts? Thesenpapier der Bertelsmann Stiftung auf Basis der Interkulturellen-Kompetenz-Modelle von Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Bertelsmann-Stiftung, 2006.
Berninghausen, Jutta, Der Spagat zwischen Reproduktion und Überwindung von Klischees. In Bolten, Jürgen / Rathje Stefanie (Hrsg.) Interkulturelle Kompetenz und Employability, intercultural journal, Jahrgang 6, Ausgabe 3, 2007.
R. Hammera, Mitchell; J. Bennettb, Milton; Wiseman, Richard: Measuring intercultural sensitivity: The intercultural development inventory, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Pergamon, Elsevier Ltd., 2003.
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Koplin, M., Schiffmann, J., Müller, S., Eirund, H., Berninghausen, J., & Fetting, M. (2014). CCBM–TRAILS: Cross-Cultural Business and Virtual Team Communication Training Platform. Economics and Business, 24, 37-45. https://doi.org/10.7250/eb.2013.005
