Two recent developments from globalization have fundamentally
altered the nature of work organizations: (1) the workforce has
become increasingly diverse in national and cultural origins, and
(2) work assignments are increasingly performed by teams consisting
of members located in different countries. Together, these changes
have resulted in employees increasingly finding themselves working
in culturally diverse, geographical dispersed, multinational teams.
Yet, relatively little scholarship has been done to study the
dynamics of such teams and how they can be better managed. The
current volume presents cutting-edge theorizing and research from a
multidisciplinary (e.g., psychology-,
communications/technology-, organizational behavior-, and
strategy-oriented) group of scholars who have been active in
studying multinational teams in a global context.
This book is divided into three parts. The first includes four
chapters focusing on culture and other intra-group factors that
affect the effective functioning of multinational teams. The second
includes five chapters that examine the effect of technology and
other external influences on team processes and outcomes. The third
part includes four chapters dealing with leadership and management
issues. The two final chapters were written by authors who have
been actively involved as organizers of multi-country academic
research teams whose life spans many years and continues today.
Cumulatively, this book??'s chapters provide management scholars a
diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives, at many
levels of analysis, and include insights borne from the authors???
observation-based and/or living-based experience withthe
culturally-challenging issues they discuss. Additionally, these
chapters also provide practicing managers useful ideas on both
intra- and external-group dynamics that help increase their
understanding about the effective functioning of multinational
teams. As a result, this book offers both breadth and depth on the
topic of managing multinational teams in a global context that
promise to make its contents of interest to many audiences.
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