Students’ cultural intelligence: From a critical literature review to a case study

The four-dimensional construct of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) represents a paradigm that well summarizes the ability of an individual to understand and interact across cultures but, although there is a vast literature on this subject, there are few studies that have specifically analyzed the effects of the methods, represented both by traditional and experiential courses and by personal experiences of life abroad, by which students' cultural intelligence can be developed. Moreover, they are mostly concentrated in the USA. The aim of this work is twofold: a) to provide a comprehensive review of the existing students’ CQ literature and secondly to understand if there is a relationship between the attendance of cross cultural management courses and/or international experience and the enhancement of student’s CQ; b) to investigate if the will to live and study abroad could be a predictor of a high level of CQ.