The growing utilization of global virtual teams with members of different cultural backgrounds necessitatesrninvestigating whether the performance of culturally diverse virtual teams would differ from the performancernof culturally homogeneous ones. Conflict management styles have been found to be of crucial importance forrnthe success of virtual teams. This research-in-progress paper advances a model that links the collaborativernconflict management style and the cultural diversity of virtual teams to their performance. A research designrnfor testing the hypotheses is described.
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