Exploring the Influence of Culture in the Present and Future of Multicultural Organizations: Comparing the Case of Spain and Latin America

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Authors must add the research questions.

How the survey is linked to liteature, this can be in a table ( question/ supported LR)

Discussion is missing.

Managerial contribution is missing

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper presents an interesting study of comparing the case of Spain and Latin America. However,  some comments need to be addressed before qualifying as a publication:

(1) The title is " Exploring the influence of culture in multicultural team performance". However, team performance is not measured in this study. Hence, this study does not explore the influence of culture on multicultural team performance and only investigates the culture between the three countries.  

(2) The literature is not reviewed adequately. Adding a part for reviewing related studies. All, it is necessary to clearly explain the contribution and significance of this study.

(3) This study compares its result with the results obtained by Hofstede. However, the detailed background about Hofstede's results is not given. how many subjects did Hofstede's study have? what are their occupations and demographics? Since this study only involves college students. If the subjects in Hofstede's study were from a different population. The comparison between the results of this and Hofstede's studies may be invalid. 

(4) The table and figures in the paper are not clear. Figures 2 and 3 do not clearly show the comparisons. Table 1 has some typos. What are the PDP add PDD in Table 2? They should be Perceived and Desired Power distance. However, I do not think that this abbreviation is needed here since the table header has given the Perceived dimension and Desired dimension.

(5)  It is interesting to measure the desired dimension. however, this paper does not explain why it measures the desired dimension. What do the results from the desired dimension tell us?  it has to add more discussion and analysis of the results.

(6) This study aims to compare different cultures, but actually compares the different countries. Do different countries mean different cultures? Since the title is Comparing the case of Spain and Latin America. it is better to compare Colombia and Ecuador firstly to show they are similar, then compare Spain with Latin America. 

 

 

 

Author Response

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Reviewer 3 Report

Additional Proposals of Reviewer

 

1. In the introduction of the paper, some relevant statements are made which serve as motivation for the paper. However, there are no literature/references provided, that support or prove these statements.
2. As the result of the introduction need to be formulated the goal of this article.

 

3. The paper lacks a short outline of the research methodology. This, in combination with a lot of statements without reference, makes it difficult to distinguish between the state of the art and the new contribution of the authors. Please add some information about the research methodology.
4. Today digitalization and Agile transformation become the global trends in project management. It is very important to understand what happened with culture in this environment.
5. A very important issue, in this case, is management projects by the distributed teams.

 

6. The paper lacks a proper evaluation of the result and a discussion. Please include evaluation and discussion.

 

7. On page 3 line 126 authors apply STEM studies. In this case unclear maturity level of the education program in each country.

 

8. In chapter 3 Results and discussion need to be clarified open issues of research.

 

9. Reference needs to be updated by books and papers from the leading schools from PMI, IPMA, PMAJ and OGC UK.

 

10. After Fig. 2 and 3 need to explain values of comparison for project management in this country/

Author Response

Thank you for your comments that help us to improve. The paper has been reviewed considering them. In the attachment we answer each comment.

 

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Reviewer 4 Report

I enjoyed reading your paper!

I have some suggestion that can help you to improve the paper.

1. Please state the research questions of your study.
2. There is no separate section in the paper for the literature review. Please make a Section 2 as a Theoretical background. Section 3 is Methodology.
3. There are some codes according to the questions in the questionnaire. But there are no references to the source of scales and the items in the scales. Please provide full questions in the attachment.
4. There is no limitations described and directions for future research. Please provide them.

Author Response

Thank you for your comments that help us to improve. The paper has been reviewed considering them. In the attachment we answer each comment.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Authors responded to my previous comments and improved the manscript accordindgly. 

Reviewer 3 Report

No comments. Improvement done according my proposal.