Multicultural managers and competitive advantage: the second leg. Replicating the effect of managers' multicultural backgrounds on organizational performance
用810个团队和295支女足队伍的数据，验证了多元文化管理者在高度多样化的竞争环境中能提升组织绩效，并证明该结论具有普遍性。
This study replicates and extends the findings of Szymanski et al. (2019) on the impact of multicultural managers on organizational performance. Using a significantly larger dataset of 810 teams, we confirm the original results, demonstrating that multicultural leaders positively influence organizational outcomes in highly diverse competitive environments. Additionally, we test the robustness of these findings in a new but related context—female football teams ( N = 295)—providing further evidence of the generalizability of multicultural leadership effects. Our study contributes to the international management literature by reinforcing the reliability of prior research and showcasing the advantages of sports data for replication studies. Sports contexts offer publicly available, transparent, and high-quality performance data, facilitating rigorous and replicable research. In an era of increasing concerns about transparency and data accessibility in management research, our findings highlight the potential of sportsbased studies to enhance methodological rigor and strengthen the empirical foundations of international business research.