Across the great divides: Gender dynamics influence how intercultural conflict helps or hurts creative collaboration

• Main Authors: CHUA, Roy Y. J., JIN, Mengzi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Conflict management; Collaboration; creativity; cross-cultural management; diversity; gender; Multicultural Psychology; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6530; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7529/viewcontent/amj.2016.1319.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Collaborating across cultures can potentially increase creativity due to access to diverse ideas and perspectives, but this benefit is not always realized. One reason is that the conflict that arises in intercultural creative collaboration is a double-edged sword and how it is managed matters. In th...