There has been increasing interest in team learning processes in recent years. Researchers have investigated the impact of team learning on team effectiveness and analyzed the enabling conditions for the process, but team learning in virtual teams has been largely ignored. This study examined the relationship between team learning and effectiveness in virtual teams, as well as the role of team ...

In this paper, we present our more than two years research experiences on virtual R&D teams in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and draws conclusions, giving special attention to the structure of virtual teams required to support education-industry collaboration. We report the relevant results of an online survey study. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random samp...

With advanced communication technologies, business managers can globally recruit talented members to form virtual teams and collaborate on innovative projects. While virtual teams enjoy superiority in their composition of talents, they also face more collaborative issues resulting from the diversity of members’ backgrounds and the limitations of communication technologies. These issues include ...

Advances in technology have over the last two decades supported the development of virtual teams, constituted of geographically distributed members collaborating through technology. Virtual teams are formed to perform complex tasks, and successful decision-making is crucial for their performance. Despite the popularity of virtual teams, little is known about the nature of decision-making in the...

Innovations in communication and decision support technology are providing organizations the ability to enhance performance by creating virtual teams. When valuable members are geographically and organizationally dispersed, the creation of virtual teams provides the flexibility to draw on knowledge, skills, and perspectives that would not be available for on-site collaboration. Virtual teams po...

Project teams are often distributed geographically, commonly spanning multiple time zones, working environments, cultures and languages. Effectively leveraging dispersed resources yields significant returns for organizations, yet executing initiatives within a distributed environment presents significant challenges. There is broad agreement that collaborative software is critical to the effecti...

Many organizations are using virtual teams to meet the increasing time and quality expectations of contemporary marketplaces. While virtual teams present advantages for cost control, access to expertise, and serving markets, they also engender practical challenges as a result of the geographic and temporal distribution of members. Previous research has suggested several factors that are critica...

Organizations increasingly define their software development projects as “virtual project teams”, where project members from within the organization cooperate with outside experts and therefore build a “community”, which in many cases o1perates as a highly distributed team. Process modeling, composition and – configuration are substantial ingredients for team activities. This paper analyses the...

Virtual teams, enabled by information technology, represent a new organizational form that has the potential to change the workplace and provide organizations with increased levels of flexibility and responsiveness. A gap exists in the current information systems literature. Previous studies seem to implicitly assume that virtual teams will be self-directed—i.e., that managerial control mechani...

This paper investigates the effects of extraversion and team member expertise on virtual team interaction and performance. Sixty-three virtual teams of professional managers participated in an intellective decision making task using a web-based conferencing tool. The results revealed level of extraversion to be positively and significantly correlated with the aggressive and constructive interac...