Volume 4,Issue 2
Research on the Cultivation and Management Mechanism of Talents’ Cross-cultural Competence in Chinese Outbound Enterprises in the Digitalization Context
Chinese outbound enterprises have completed a paradigm shift in their globalization journey, evolving from product export to value co-creation. Digital technologies have restructured the underlying logic of cross-border business collaboration, while setting forth entirely new requirements for the cross-cultural competence of talents. Existing studies have largely focused on the dimensional deconstruction of cross-cultural competence, yet few have fully integrated the digitalization context to construct a closed-loop mechanism from the perspective of management studies, making it difficult to address the pressing managerial dilemmas faced by outbound enterprises. Grounded in Dynamic Capability Theory and Social Identity Theory, this study defines the core connotation of outbound talents’ cross-cultural competence in the digitalization context, sorts out the deep-seated logical deviations and practical dilemmas of current cultivation systems, constructs a four-dimensional closed-loop management mechanism featuring strategic embeddedness, digital enablement, data-driven operation, and value interlinkage, and proposes organizational and institutional guarantee paths for the implementation of the mechanism. This study enriches the theory of strategic human resource management in the digitalization context, and provides an implementable management framework for Chinese outbound enterprises to cultivate cross-cultural talents.
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