OTTRS: Vas Taras - February 23, 2024 | UMD INFO College

OTTRS Speaker Series: The X-Culture Global Research Platform: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned
Vas Taras
Professor and Department Chair, International Business
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Friday, February 23, 2024

Abstract:
This presentation will share details about and lessons learned from X-Culture research, as well as about applications of the findings for crowdsourcing-based international business consulting.

What is X-Culture? X-Culture = Students + Professors + Business + Research.

Businesses ask for help
Students help businesses while gaining international business experience
Professors help their students learn from experience
Researchers use the data for research

X-Culture is a large-scale international collaboration project. Approximately 7,000 students from 150 universities in 70 countries on six continents participate in X-Culture each semester, and over 110,000 students have completed the program since it launched in 2010. X-Culture collects immense amounts of data, tracking over 3,000 variables, many measured longitudinally, at multiple levels, and using multiple data sources. Over 800 researchers worldwide in involved in X-Culture's research projects in various capacities.

Bio:
Vas Taras is a Professor of International Business and a Department Chair at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the VP of Administration at the Academy of International Business and the founder of the X-Culture Project. He received his Ph.D. in International HR and International Business from the University of Calgary, Canada, and his Master’s in Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of HRM, Journal of International Management, the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, the European Journal of International Management, and Cross-Cultural Strategic Management. Vas has lived, worked, and studied in half a dozen countries and has experience as an academic, manager, entrepreneur, and business consultant.

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