Managing multinational teams : global perspectives / [edited by] Debra L. Shapiro, Mary Ann Von Glinow, Joseph L.C. Cheng.

Includes bibliographical references.

Two recent developments from globalization have fundamentally altered the nature of work organizations: the workforce has become increasingly diverse in national and cultural origins, and 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 books 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 with the 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.

Preface / Debra L. Shapiro, Mary Ann Von Glinow, Joseph L.C. Cheng -- Internal dynamics and cultural intelligence in multinational teams / P. Christopher Earley, Heidi K. Gardner -- The impact of cultural value diversity on multicultural team performance / Bradley L. Kirkman, Debra L. Shapiro -- Turning the tide in multinational teams / Cristina B. Gibson, Anitza Ross Grubb -- Communication and the learning effectiveness of multinational teams / Gerardine DeSanctis, Lu Jiang -- Intense collaboration in globally distributed work teams: evolving patterns of dependencies and coordination / Kuldeep Kumar, Paul C. van Fenema, Mary Ann Von Glinow -- Knowledge resource sharing in dispersed multinational teams: three theoretical lenses / Janet Fulk, Peter Monge, Andrea B. Hollingshead -- Social performance learning in multinational corporations: multicultural teams, their social capital and use of cross-sector alliances / Jane E. Salk, Bindu Arya -- Macro influences on multicultural teams: a multi-level view / Mariann Jelinek, Jeanne Wilson -- A strategic embeddedness analysis of global business teams: directions for future research / Anil K. Gupta, Qing Cao -- Top management teams in an international context: an assessment and review / Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, Jennifer L. Woolley -- Do "global" teams need "global" leaders? identifying leadership competencies in multinational teams / Aparna Joshi, Mila Lazarova --The life cycle of academic international research teams: just when you thought "virtual" teams were all the rage ... here come the AIRTS! / Mary B. Teagarden, Ellen A. Drost, Mary Ann Von Glinow -- Managing a multinational team: lessons from Project Globe / Paul J. Hanges, Julie S. Lyon, Peter W. Dorfman.

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