Social processes and team creativity in multicultural teams: A socio‐technical framework
分析了文化多样性如何通过社会过程抑制团队创造力，并基于社会技术系统视角，探讨了信息技术和任务环境如何调节这种负面效应，对研究多元文化团队管理的学者有参考价值。
Summary Cultural diversity is widely believed to broaden the knowledge and perspectives in a team and hence benefit team creativity. However, cultural diversity can at the same time suppress team creativity through the negative social processes it engenders, and this negative mechanism has received little theoretical attention. We present a theoretical analysis to explicate how cultural diversity creates cultural identity and intercultural obstacles, which hinder knowledge sharing and integration among team members and hence team creativity. Drawing on the socio‐technical systems perspective, we identify two types of contextual variables that moderate the negative, mediated impact of cultural diversity on team creativity: information and communication technology and task environment in terms of task characteristics. We provide an analysis of how each type of variables moderates the negative impact of cultural diversity on social processes and the impact of social processes on knowledge sharing and integration. Several future research directions based on the socio‐technical systems perspective are discussed. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.