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Transnational teams in the electronic age: are team identity and high performance at risk?
Author(s) -
Shapiro Debra L.,
Furst Stacie A.,
Spreitzer Gretchen M.,
Von Glinow Mary Ann
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/job.149
Subject(s) - social loafing , salience (neuroscience) , diversity (politics) , variety (cybernetics) , value (mathematics) , identity (music) , social psychology , psychology , public relations , business , sociology , political science , computer science , cognitive psychology , law , physics , artificial intelligence , machine learning , acoustics
The literature on effort‐withholding behaviors (e.g., loafing, shirking, free‐riding) in groups has generally focused on co‐located and single‐country settings. Drawing from a variety of literatures, we offer a causal model that shows why effort‐withholding behaviors may be particularly at risk in transnational teams (TNTs). We theorize that three characteristics of TNTs (cultural value diversity, reliance on electronic communications, and the lack of onsite monitoring) will reduce the salience of transnational team identity which, in turn, will increase members' propensity to withhold performance‐effort. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.