Globally Mobile Intellectual Capital: Narratives of Corporate Executives & Families on the Move / Shabih Zaidi

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaidi, Shabih Dr., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auslandsentsendung.

Biografie.

Biography.

Expatriates.

Pharmaceutical Company.

Pharmazeutisches Unternehmen.

Local Subjects:

Auslandsentsendung.

Biografie.

Biography.

Expatriates.

Pharmaceutical Company.

Pharmazeutisches Unternehmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2022

Biography/History:

Dr. Shabih Zaidi has been 'on the move' since she was born in London. Honing a deep interest in human behavior and how culture shapes individuals, she completed her Masters in Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2009. After moving to Dubai, she lectured on Global Awareness at Zayed University, and since 2014 she has been living in Basel, where she completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Basel. As a Certified Professional Coach, Shabih leads strategic organizational and cultural transformation projects including designing and delivering interventions to accelerate personal and business growth. Offering expertise to explore the link between organizational systems, human behaviour, culture and belonging, Shabih builds potential capability by tapping into complexity and diversity.

Summary:

The pharmaceutical ecosystem in Basel, Switzerland, concentrates highly skilled professionals and their families into a small area, profoundly changing the local social landscape and transforming the lived experiences of those involved. Using a multidisciplinary approach to unpack the narratives of belonging at work and home, the author offers perspectives of self-discovery, personal growth, and corporate mobility. How can culture be understood, negotiated, and built through emotional capital and sensorial mobility? If you are looking to learn more about what to expect when moving as a family on international assignments or are keen to explore some typical aspects of life in Basel, the insights from this book will help you pick up strategies to start you on your journey.

Contents:

Intro

Abstract

Profiles

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 : Introduction

i. Research Question / Collection of Biographies

ii. The Field and Biographical sample

iii. Methodology: interviews, participant observation

iv. Observing Oneself: Positionality

v. Defining Corporate Mobility and Fieldwork

vi. Mobility Factors

vii. Framework

Chapter 2 : Plug In / Plug Out

i. Working Strategies

ii. Working together

iii. On the Personal Front

iv. Affective Analysis

v. Containing Perspectives

vi. Conclusion

Chapter 3 : Families on the Move

i. Mobility Snapshots

ii. Conclusion

Chapter 4 : Intellectual Capital as Currency

i. Language as Currency

Conclusion

Chapter 5 : Mobility Flows: Emotions

Food, Rituals, Memory

i. Affect Theory Unpacked

ii. Sensorial Mobility

iii. Emotional Capital

iv. Emotions on the Move

v. Conclusion

Chapter 6 : Transnational Transformations

i. Management Matters

ii. Mobile Leaders

iii. Success Factors

iv. Conclusion

Chapter 7 : Basel Topography &amp

Features

i. Imaginary of Basel

ii. (Un)common Spaces

iii. Conclusion

Chapter 8: Basel is Unique - City Life

i . Reality Bites

ii. International School Bubble

iii. (In)Visible Boundaries

iv. Consuming Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 9: Mobility or Not?

i. Dual Career Choices

ii. Support Networks

Chapter 10 : Swiss Spaces

i. Gruezi! Greetings!

ii. Permission, Please!

iii. Integration Means?

Chapter 11: Exploring 'I'

i. Getting to know Basel

ii. Learning By Doing

iii. University Experience

iv. What does this mean?

Chapter 12 : Sensorialscapes

i. Linking Spatialities

ii. Emotional Capital

iii. Discomfort Explored

iv. Conclusion.

Chapter 13. Concluding Findings and Remarks

1. Mobility enhances career and personal trajectories

2. Intellectual Capital leads to Mobility and Mobility leads to Intellectual Capital

3. Emotional Capital Accumulation

4. Agency

5. Culture &amp

Belonging

6. Loose Ends

i. Complexity of Success

ii. Mobility &amp

Identity Markers

iii. Globalisation, Self &amp

Ethnography

iv. PhD 2015 - Pandemic 2020

References.

Other Format:

Print version: Zaidi, Shabih Globally Mobile Intellectual Capital: Narratives of Corporate Executives & Families on the Move

ISBN:

9783838276526

Publisher Number:

9783838276526