Diversity in Interorganizational Teams

The ongoing demographic change leads to an increasing lack of highly skilled workforce which affects especially R&D driven organizations. In order to counter this effect, organizations tend to cooperate and form alliances and networks. This way they can pool their resources in interorganizational teams and gain access to complementary skills. On a micro level, the success of cooperations thus strongly depends on the success of the respective interorganizational teams. While traditional diversity research focuses on benefits and risks of heterogeneous teams within one organization, interorganizational teams are faced with additional challenges regarding diversity. In order to identify management issues and to gain a comprehensive overview of the relevant diversity dimensions and their complex interactions, we explore different perspectives on interorganizational R&D teams and integrate them into a framework for further research.