Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008)
The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Global Virtual Team Collaboration A Social Identity Perspective (PDF)
Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii January 07-January 10 ISBN: 0-7695-3075-3
Global Virtual Teams (GVTs) ? teams with geographically and temporally dispersed members who heavily rely on computer-mediated communications (CMC) ? face significant collaboration challenges associated with cultural diversity. From the social identity perspective, we investigated the impact of GVT members' cultural individualism/collectivism (I/C) and language identities on their participation in team collaboration. A field experiment involving 33 GVTs was conducted to test our hypotheses. The results indicated that when a team's identity faultlines are strong, its members' I/C and Language identities have significant impact on their levels and forms of participation; and that communication media have significant interaction effects on these relationships.
Citation:
Yu-Ting Caisy Hung, Mary Thi Thao Duyen Nguyen, "The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Global Virtual Team Collaboration A Social Identity Perspective," hicss, pp.10, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), 2008 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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