Are multinational teams more successful?

Hartmut Haas and Stephan Nuesch
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Hartmut Haas: Towers Watson, Executive Compensation

No 88, Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Abstract: Teams have become increasingly multinational in many sectors. The impact of national diversity on team performance is controversial, however. On the one hand, multinational teams may have access to a greater variety of task-relevant expertise, which should increase team performance. On the other hand, national diversity may complicate team collaboration and increase team conflict. Applying panel econometrics to 4,284 team observations in a globalized sector, we find evidence that multinational teams perform worse than teams with less national diversity.

Keywords: Controlled field environment; multinational teams; national diversity; professional sports; professional sports; team performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2013-05
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