How New Venture Student Teams Get Things Done: A Multi-Country Study
Mourad Dakhli
Georgia State University, USA
Erica Kovacs
Indiana University, USA
Qing Li
Shanghai Business School, China
Marta Szabo White
Georgia State University, USA
Volume 13: 2018, pp. 127-156; ABSTRACT
Higher education has become increasingly more global with a pronounced surge in student and educator mobility across countries and regions. The rise in cross-border transfers of people and talent calls for a more systematic investigation of learning and performance across cultures and institutions. In this study, we explore how business student teams in different cultures engage in collaborative exchange to complete challenging assignments centered on new venture creation and innovation. We focus on entrepreneurial-type tasks that require extensive interaction, and employ a grounded theory approach to expand our theory-driven model using qualitative data from teams in the United States, China, and Kuwait. Our findings support existing literature on the roles of trust and commitment as drivers of cooperation in teams. Qualitative analysis results yielded additional variables reflecting the unique cultural and institutional contexts, and supporting the equifinality of innovation in new venture student teams across cultures.
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