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Facilitating Information Exchange in Intercultural Virtual Teams
In: Interculture journal: Online-Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Studien, Band 19, Heft 33, S. 13-25
ISSN: 2196-9485, 1610-7217
Though knowledge and information exchange are vital for the success of virtual intercultural teams, there is often an unarticulated assumption that it will developnaturally in the course of a collaboration. Data gathered from virtual German-Indian engineering teams indicates that variances in cultural communication routines lead toknowledge / information withholding, whether intentional or accidental, and impair team functioning. Consequently, effective facilitation is needed to create and maintainreciprocal cognitive and socio-emotional information exchange. The biggest challenge in this venture is achieving the proper synthesis between the structures needed to provide stability and the agile, open-ended VOPA approach required in a VUCA environment.To this end, some of the methods available to promote knowledge exchange are reviewed for their benefits on both fronts.