title: Moving Beyond Conventional Wisdom: Advancements in Cross-Cultural Theories of Leadership, Conflict, and Teams.
abstract: In this article, we discuss the importance of a cross-cultural approach to organizational behavior. To do so, we illustrate how cross-cultural research in the past two decades has enabled us to reconceptualize constructs, revise models, and extend boundary conditions in traditional organizational behavior theories. We focus on three domains-teams, leadership, and conflict-and review cross-cultural empirical evidence that has extended several theories in each of these domains. We support the claim that even well-established organizational behavior theories vary in the extent to which they may be applied unilaterally across cultures, thus identifying the critical need to advance these theories via a cross-cultural research agenda.
authors.affiliation: Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine cgibson@uci.edu.
authors.forename: Cristina B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.affiliation: Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine.
authors.forename: Dana M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: McDaniel
keywords: conflict; cross-cultural; leadership; organizational behavior; teams