Managing Cultural Diversity in Collaborations: A focus on management tensions |
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Authors: | Siv Vangen Nik Winchester |
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Institution: | 1. Public Leadership and Social Enterprise , The Open University Business School , Milton Keynes , UK s.vangen@open.ac.uk;3. Public Leadership and Social Enterprise , The Open University Business School , Milton Keynes , UK |
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Abstract: | Abstract This article explores the management of cultural diversity in public and not-for-profit collaborations spanning organizational, professional and national boundaries. Through the framing of a culture paradox, it identifies three interrelated tensions pertaining to the management of cultural diversity towards collaborative advantage. These tensions address: interactions between organizations within a collaboration; interactions between individual actors and their orientation towards the collaboration and their host organization; and the quantity and extent of cultural diversity within a collaboration. The culture paradox and its inherent management tensions provide theoretical and practical conceptualizations that are relevant to management and governance of collaboration. |
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Keywords: | Collaboration cultural diversity culture paradox management tensions |
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