Reluctance to seek knowledge from someone with a different culture can render knowledge sharing more cumbersome and hence complicate the development of TSU. It has also been argued that cultural traits, such as individualist vs collectivist and high vs low power distance, affect an individual’s acceptance of or resistance to team work, such as that involving joint problem solving and TSU development (Kirkman & Shapiro, 1997). These arguments support a negative relationship between cultural distance and TSU generation. Hence: