What We Talk About When We Talk About “Global Mindset”

Mosakowski (2004) define CQ as “the ability to make sense of unfamiliar contexts and then blend in.”
This definition makes CQ quite distinctive from global mindset, yet one could argue that having a higher
level of CQ could facilitate the development of a global mindset.
As a final note, we suggest that further theory building and empirical work on global mindset
should draw on broader theoretical perspectives beyond its current basis in international management
and should be conducted in diverse settings. It would be ironic if the construct of global mindset were to
continue to be developed from a largely Western perspective and ignore the increasing number of voices
calling for the testing of management theories in contexts that explicitly test their universality (Hofstede,
1980b; Boyacigiller and Adler, 1991).
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