TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose – Existing research in organizational behavior and social psychology focuses on comparisons in behaviors and attitudes across national groups, instead of studies on interactions among individuals with different national cultural backgrounds. In this chapter, we hope to motivate efforts within cross-national literatures to address some largely unexamined questions regarding dynamics in multicultural diverse teams.Design/approach – Through a review of the prior perspectives on multicultural teams and a summary of findings in a recent meta-analysis study on multicultural teams in both single nation and multinational settings, we critique the limitations of the current perspectives and propose a new theoretical framework that draws on status perspectives in sociological and ethological research.Findings – Drawing from status literatures, we explore how the status construction process and the status differential hierarchy of the team may affect trust, psychological safety, and creative problem solving of complex tasks in multicultural teams.Originality/value – We propose a new theoretical angle of status for future research on interaction dynamics in multicultural teams, and diverse teams in general.
VL  - 15
SN  - 978-1-78190-030-7, 978-1-78190-031-4/1534-0856
DO  - 10.1108/S1534-0856(2012)0000015016
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1534-0856(2012)0000015016
AU  - Silberzahn Raphael
AU  - Chen Ya-Ru
ED  - Margaret A. Neale
ED  - Elizabeth A. Mannix
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Toward Better Understanding of Interaction Dynamics in Multicultural Teams: A Status Perspective
T2  - Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Review of Group and Team-Based Research
T3  - Research on Managing Groups and Teams
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 327
EP  - 357
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -