1. PhD DEFENSE School of Business and Economics – 17 February 2010NantawanNoiKwanjai –

2. A tale of the UnDutchablesin the land of 1001 smiles

3. My version of acknowledgements

4. My supervisor’s preferred version I thank the whole world.

6. constant flux

7. interacting forces

8. know-how  tacit

9. embedded in practice

10. bounded by contextintractably complex non-deterministic (un)learning-by-doing recursive-reflexive cross-cultural heuristic cultivation & assessment of XCQ

11. 1) Culture is NOT only about “nation”.

12. Cultural groups cultural groups incidental formalized social ~ labyrinth formal ~ hierarchy biological familial/clan ethnic spiritual social class professional ‘community of practice’ clique global regional (continental) national regional (provincial) sectoral industrial organizational departmental team

13. 2) Content/component v. context/interaction www.mikkilineni.wordpress.com www.yokogomi.com www.creativethailand.org

18. synchronizing mediator,

19. fusing hybridizer,

20. accommodating adaptormechanism Examples of formulaic approach courtesy of Ramsey et. al (2011)

23. Fraught with conflicts

24. “Cross” at the fault lines

25. Participants are seen as opponents, and the goal is to win the battle in the most favourable manner to one side only.* Metaphorical analysis based on concept in Lackoff & Jonhson (1980).

26. taxonomy of cultural crossing Beyond clashing:

27. Shall we dance?