The question then is, how do we tackle the concept of culture for our purposes in this book? We need both a working definition of culture relevant to the context of multicultural teams, and a practical framework for conceptualizing it in order to examine its impact on multicultural teams. It seems to me it is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here when we can offer a workable definition drawing upon earlier work. Let us now explore some ways of defining and understanding the notion of culture and its related complexities.