“…For example, diversity of team members' gender is positively associated with higher team performance in China but not in the US (Zhang & Hou, 2012). Similarly, Zhang and Tsui (2013) Liang et al (2014) found that team relationship conflicts had a weaker negative impact on team identity in East Asian student teams compared to North American ones, Cooper and Watson showed that relationship conflicts were negatively associated with team performance in more collectivistic, Mexican teams. One possibility is that despite sharing collectivistic cultural values, East Asians emphasize interdependent selfconstrual, while Mexicans tend to focus more on independent self-construal (Krys et al, 2022).…”