International strategic alliances have grown increasingly popular in recent decades, yet their failure rate is extremely high. Poor management of adverse situations contributes significantly to such high failure rates. Moreover, the international environments in which international strategic...

When faced with adverse situations in exchange relationships, the people involved are required to respond. Response strategies are reactions to such adverse situations and represent an integrated structure organized in people's psyches. Extant response strategy research implicitly assumes that...

In this study we present a multilevel cultural faultline model depicting the effect of faultlines in terms of national and organizational culture and personality on team conflict in offshore outsourcing teams. Some studies have addressed faultline activation, the process of triggering social...

We review and reconceptualize faultline activation, defined as the process by which members of a team come to perceive subgroups, and add the notion of faultline deactivation, the process of minimizing the salience of perceived subgroups in teams. We develop a typology for faultline activators...