Cultural Homophily and Collaboration in Superstar Teams
研究了文化同质性（即与相似文化背景的人交往的倾向）在超级明星跨国团队中是否依然存在，基于欧洲顶级足球联赛的传球数据分析发现，即使在目标明确、激励一致的高技能团队中，文化同质性仍然普遍且影响显著。
One may reasonably think that cultural homophily, defined as the tendency to associate with others of similar culture, affects collaboration in multinational teams in general but not in superstar teams of professionals at the top of their industry. The analysis of an exhaustive data set on the passes made by professional European football players in the top five men’s leagues reveals that on the contrary, cultural homophily is persistent, pervasive, and consequential, even in superstar multinational teams of very-high-skill individuals with clear common objectives and aligned incentives who are involved in interactive tasks that are well defined and not particularly culture intensive. This paper was accepted by Olav Sorenson, organizations. Funding: G. Békés thanks the Hungarian Academy of Sciences [Grant “Firms, Strategy and Performance” Lendület] for support. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data files are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.01799 .