When Three Is Better than Two: How Culture Can Bridge Collaboration in Globally Distributed Teams

[...]of the COVID-19 pandemic, many managers have stopped travelling and have started leading online GDTs for the first time. [...]the Brazilian team was given the responsibility of developing the first medium-sized, heavy-duty truck (the Volvo VM), working alongside the French and Swedish teams. [...]research has been developing ways to explain these processes inside GDTs (Cagiltay et al., 2015;Hoch & Kozlowski,20l4). According to the authors,'in the absence of communication norms, team members resorted to using the practices prevalent in their local setting' (Malhotra et al., 2007, p. 62).