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Publication date: 14 October 2015

Team-Based Global Organizations: The Future of Global Organizing

Lena Zander, Christina L. Butler, Audra I. Mockaitis, Kendall Herbert, Jakob Lauring, Kristiina Mäkelä, Minna Paunova, Timurs Umans and Peter Zettinig

We propose team-based organizing as an alternative to more traditional forms of hierarchy-based organizing in global firms.

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Purpose

We propose team-based organizing as an alternative to more traditional forms of hierarchy-based organizing in global firms.

Methodology/approach

Advancements in the study of global teams, leadership, process, and outcomes were organized into four themes: (1) openness toward linguistic and value diversity as enhancing team creativity and performance, (2) knowledge sharing in team-based organizations, (3) the significance of social capital for global team leader role success, and (4) shared leadership, satisfaction, and performance links in global virtual teams.

Findings

We identify questions at three levels for bringing research on team-based organizing in global organizations forward. At the within-team individual level, we discuss the criticality of process and leadership in teams. At the between-teams group level, we draw attention to that global teams also need to focus on relationships and interactions with other teams within the same global firm, for example, when sharing knowledge. With respect to the across-teams organizational level, we highlight how bringing people together in global teams from different organizational units and cultures creates the potential for experiential individual and team-based learning, while making the firm more flexible and adaptable.

Theoretical implications

The potential of the relatively underexplored idea of global team-based firms as an alternative to hierarchy open up questions for empirical research, and further theorizing about the global firm.

Practical implications

Practitioners can learn about organizational, team, and individual challenges and benefits of global team-based organizing.

Originality/value

A century-old dominant organizational form is challenged when moving away from hierarchy- and hybrid-based forms of organizing toward team-based global organizing of work.

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The Future Of Global Organizing
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1745-886220150000010008
ISBN: 978-1-78560-422-5

Keywords

  • Global teams
  • team leadership
  • boundary spanning
  • knowledge transfer
  • creativity
  • language

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Publication date: 2 September 2010

Walking the cultural distance: in search of direction beyond friction

Rian Drogendijk and Lena Zander

What we know is that the concept of cultural distance is frequently used, hotly debated and for many intuitively appealing. Suffering from a series of illusionary…

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What we know is that the concept of cultural distance is frequently used, hotly debated and for many intuitively appealing. Suffering from a series of illusionary properties, it is argued to have outlived its usefulness. What we need to know is how to conceptualize the complexity of culture as a multi-dimensional, multi-level concept, taking context into account to measure quality rather than quantity (or distance). It is our ambition to do justice to the idea that cultural diversity not only leads to friction or problem creation, but also to enrichment and to generation of solutions. We discuss cultural conceptualizations and suggest cultural profiling and cultural positioning as alternative ways of comparing and contrasting critical cultural differences.

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The Past, Present and Future of International Business & Management
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-5027(2010)00000230015
ISBN: 978-0-85724-085-9

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Article
Publication date: 11 January 2013

Special ones needed for global goal: Critical challenge to find and nurture leaders

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

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This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.

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This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

Findings

A huge and complex responsibility faces those individuals who become leaders of global organizations. Not surprising then that there are concerns about a lack of talent coming through the ranks to manage companies which are becoming increasingly global in nature.

Practical implications

The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.

Originality/value

The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to digest format.

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Strategic Direction, vol. 29 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/02580541311298029
ISSN: 0258-0543

Keywords

  • Business ethics
  • Cross culture
  • Globalization
  • Global teams
  • International trade
  • Leadership
  • Management development
  • Multicultural teams
  • People‐oriented leadership
  • Strategic leadership
  • Team leadership
  • Virtual teams

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Article
Publication date: 3 May 2016

A sensemaking perspective on arts sponsorship decisions

Kate Daellenbach, Lena Zander and Peter Thirkell

– The purpose of this paper is to better understand the sensemaking strategies of managers involved in making decisions concerning arts sponsorship.

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The purpose of this paper is to better understand the sensemaking strategies of managers involved in making decisions concerning arts sponsorship.

Design/methodology/approach

A qualitative, multiple case method is employed, using multiple informants in ten arts sponsorship decisions. Within and between case analyses were conducted and examined iteratively, along with literature to generate themes to guide future research.

Findings

This study finds art sponsorships may be seen as ambiguous, cueing sensemaking; the sensemaking strategies of senior managers involve response to pro-social cues while middle managers draw on commercial benefit cues; sensebreaking and sensegiving are part of the process; and the actors and their interpretations draw from cues in the organisational frames of reference which act as filters, giving meaning to the situations.

Research limitations/implications

This study presents a novel perspective on these decisions, focusing on the micro-level actions and interpretations of actors. It extends current understanding of sponsorship decision making, contributing to a perspective of managers responding to cues, interacting and making sense of their decisions.

Practical implications

For arts managers, this perspective provides understanding of how managers (potential sponsors) respond to multiple cues, interpret and rationalise arts sponsorships. For corporate managers, insights reveal differences in sensemaking between hierarchical levels, and the role of interaction, and organisational frames of reference.

Originality/value

This study is unique in its approach to understanding these decisions in terms of sensemaking, through the use of multiple informants and multiple case studies.

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Arts and the Market, vol. 6 no. 1
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/AAM-05-2013-0006
ISSN: 2056-4945

Keywords

  • Sensemaking
  • Decision making
  • Sponsorship
  • Arts sponsorship
  • Organisational frames of reference

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Book part
Publication date: 2 September 2010

Authors’ Biographies

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The Past, Present and Future of International Business & Management
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-5027(2010)00000230032
ISBN: 978-0-85724-085-9

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Book part
Publication date: 9 August 2016

Editorial Board

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Advances in Global Leadership
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1535-120320160000009026
ISBN: 978-1-78635-138-8

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Publication date: 19 October 2020

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Advances in Global Leadership
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1535-120320200000013013
ISBN: 978-1-83909-592-4

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Book part
Publication date: 14 October 2015

List of Contributors

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The Future of Global Organizing
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1745-886220150000010029
ISBN: 978-1-78560-422-5

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Publication date: 2 September 2010

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The Past, Present and Future of International Business & Management
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-5027(2010)0000023003
ISBN: 978-0-85724-085-9

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Publication date: 1 January 2014

Preface

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Advances in Global Leadership
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1535-120320140000008024
ISBN: 978-1-78350-479-4

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