Cultural Brokerage and Creative Performance in Multicultural Teams

The author is grateful to Richard Hackman, Jeff Polzer, Teresa Amabile, Andy Molinsky, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Roy Chua for their guidance throughout this research. She also wishes to thank Michel Anteby, Noah Askin, Sen Chai, Colin Fisher, Spencer Harrison, Chris Marquis, Mark Mortensen, Jennifer Petriglieri, Luciana Silvestri, Roderick Swaab, and Stefan Thau, as well as editor Pam Hinds and two anonymous reviewers, for their invaluable comments on this manuscript. She is indebted to Vas Taras and his collaborators on the X-culture project for granting her access to the archival data set, and to Anita Woolley and David Engel for the online platform used in the experimental study. This work also greatly benefited from feedback from members of the Harvard GroupsGroup, Harvard OB Lab, Harvard Nonlab, Brandeis Research Group, and INSEAD Groups Reading Group. The Division of Research at Harvard Business School and the INSEAD R&D Committee provided financial support for this research.