Intercultural Collaboration

We advance global competence, intercultural collaboration, and responsible management in the context of current global challenges.

Basis of the following teaching modules

Intercultural Competence & Communication (Bachelor), International Business Management (Bachelor), Multicultural Negotiations (Bachelor)

Selected publications

Wilmot, Natalie V. and Claudine Gaibrois (forthcoming). The Routledge Companion to Cross-Cultural Management. 2nd edition. Oxon: Routledge.
Studer, Patrick; Nadja S. Spillmann, Sandra McGury, and Jacqueline Bürki (2026), Intercultural Competence and Training Needs of University Staff: Insights from Critical Incident Analysis, Journal of Studies in International Education, in press.
Gaibrois, Claudine (2025), When ‘struggling with English’ becomes ‘passivity’: how language asymmetries in higher education get masked as ‘cultural differences’, 31(3), 232-252.
Studer, Patrick, Jacqueline Bürki, and Sandra McGury (2024), Implementing global competences in higher education in Switzerland: conceptual considerations (Vol. 23). Working paper, Departement Angewandte Linguistik, ZHAW.
Barner-Rasmussen, Wilhelm, Claudine Gaibrois and Natalie Victoria Wilmot (2024), Perfection, hybridity or shutting up? A cross-country study of how language ideologies shape participation in international business, International Business Review, 33(1), 102189.
Piekkari, Rebecca, Claudine Gaibrois, and Marjana Johansson (2022), A Review of Language-Sensitive Research in International Business: A Multi-Paradigmatic Reading, 25(1), 144-174.
Ali-Lawson, Debra Dianne, and Jacqueline Bürki (2018), Organisational challenges and opportunities when implementing an international profile (Vol. 107). Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics (VALS-ASLA).
Gaibrois, Claudine (2018), 'It crosses all the boundaries': hybrid language use as empowering resource, European Journal of International Management, 12(1-2), 82-110.
Gaibrois, Claudine and Chris Steyaert (2017), Beyond possession and competition: Investigating cooperative aspects of power in multilingual organizations, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 17(1), 69-84.
Steyaert, Chris, Anja Ostendorp, and Claudine Gaibrois (2011), Multilingual organizations as ‘linguascapes’: Negotiating the position of English through discursive practices, Journal of World Business, 46(3), 270-278.

Other projects

Virtual Exchange and its role in Global Competence Development. An abbreviated guide for successful virtual exchange projects.

Beyond language ideologies: The role of language for migrants’ work experiences (Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Claudine Gaibrois, Bern University of Applied Sciences Business School; Natalie Wilmot, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK), funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland.

Studer, Patrick, Bürki, Jacqueline, McGury, Sandra (2023), Workshop "A fresh look at global competences in our degree programmes", IRUAS Conference.

Selected activities and media coverage

Gaibrois, Claudine (2025). Privilege and exclusion, resistance and democratization: The multiple power effects of language diversity at the workplace. Gastvortrag im Kurs Mehrsprachigkeit in Berufskontexten. ZHAW, November 5th.

Gaibrois, Claudine (2025). The value of cross-country comparison: How the differing institutional contexts of Switzerland, Finland and the UK affect international migrants’ language-related work integration. IMF Seminar, Åbo Akademi University, School of Business and Economics. May 19th.

Gaibrois, Claudine (2024). Discussant im Panel Cosmopolitanism. 50th EIBA (European International Business Association) Conference, Helsinki (FIN), 12. – 14. December. 

Studer, Patrick, Bürki, Jacqueline, McGury, Sandra (2023), Workshop "A fresh look at global competences in our degree programmes", IRUAS Conference.

Gaibrois, Claudine (2021). Business language «broken english». Interview with Radio SRF. April 21st.

Gaibrois, Claudine (2021). "Englisch als Privileg in der Arbeitswelt von heute". Interview with Youtube channel of the Universität St. Gallen, February 5th.