Multilingual and multicultural managers’ effects on team performance: insights from professional football teams

Mike Szymanski, Ilan Alon, Komal Kalra

نتاج البحث: نشر في مجلةمقالةمراجعة النظراء

7 اقتباسات (Scopus)

ملخص

Purpose: In this study, micro-foundations of strategy as the theoretical framework to study the effect of managers’ individual characteristics on multinational team performance are adopted. In particular, the purpose of this paper is to study managers’ multilingual communication abilities and multicultural background, and their role in, respectively, effectively reconfiguring team human assets and sensing cognitively distant opportunities and threats. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses national football teams competing in national and international competitions and their coaches’ characteristics as the data set to test the theory. Using random coefficient modeling and ordinary least square regression, this paper analyzes two samples of 222 and 79 teams and found that both these characteristics contribute to team performance; however, their effects differ depending on the team environment. Findings: Multicultural managers contribute positively to team performance only when the team is operating in a highly diverse environment, their effect is not statistically significant in homogeneous environments. In less diverse environments, it is the multilingual manager who can improve team performance through more efficient communication and greater effects of leadership on the team. Originality/value: Managers’ characteristics such as their multicultural background and multilingual capabilities affect team performance. In particular, these effects come into play in highly diverse and international settings. Micro-foundation literature is advised to focus on the internationalization and multicultural backgrounds of managers as a precursor for organizational international performance.

اللغة الأصليةالإنجليزيّة
الصفحات (من إلى)40-61
عدد الصفحات22
دوريةMultinational Business Review
مستوى الصوت30
رقم الإصدار1
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء
حالة النشرنُشِر - 23 مارس 2022
منشور خارجيًانعم

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