Relational models in cross-cultural collaboration

  • Authors:

  • Markus Vodosek

  • Affiliations:

  • German Graduate School of Management and Law, Heilbronn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, I propose that mental models of social inter-action affect the internal processes and outcomes of cross-cultural collaborations. Drawing on Fiske's relational models theory, I suggest that the use of dissimilar relational models can be detrimental to collaborators when they use dissimilar models within a given situation. However, relational models dissimilarity can be desirable when collaborators use different models across different situations as long as collaborators use the same relational model within each given situation.