Answer and Explanation:
There’s a large body of scholarship examining the challenges of cross-cultural communication and collaboration: A recent review of more than 1,100 studies published over the course of 24 years in the Journal of International Business Studies revealed that 95% of those studies focused on the negative effects of team member differences. Similarly, much research has shown that age, gender, or racial differences can complicate interactions among team members.
However, team member differences can also be very beneficial for a team’s performance. Numerous studies have shown that less homogeneous teams exhibit more creativity. Such teams also consider more options, process facts more carefully, are less likely to fall into the groupthink trap, and ultimately make better decisions.
The question is: When do teams whose members live in different countries perform better, and when do they struggle? Our research explains how different types of geographic diversity play out across teams.