Today, software engineering projects are prevalently performed by development teams that are geographically distributed over two or more locations. However, this trend also introduces a number of complications when it comes to communication between stakeholders, coordination of work, and control of the project. This thesis aims to develop a prototype of an environment in a 3D virtual world whic...

The use of virtual teams is prevalent in organizations. Managers and CIOs face questions and issues regarding the organization and effectiveness of virtual teams. It is important for information systems researchers to study and understand virtual team and communication media issues. The objective of this research is to provide clarity to media impacts theories and better understand media impact...

The paper presents ongoing research into offshore software development and preliminary analysis of the process of knowledge transfer in distributed settings. The aim of the study is to enhance our understanding of managing knowledge transfer in virtual teams within the context of offshore software development. Virtual teams means individuals with different competencies who are located across ti...

Globalization spurred the rise of virtual software development teams. The complexity of managing a virtual team is rooted in the diverse cultural makeup of the team. Research increasingly recognizes that culture has significant implications for information systems. We propose in this study that the success of virtual software development team is influenced by cultural intelligence, a recent con...

The work of virtual teams is increasingly important to today’s organizations, work that is accomplished predominantly via computer-mediated communication. The authors investigate the moderating role of experience with instant messaging on the team interpersonal processes (cohesion and openness) to team effectiveness relationship in virtual teams. Data were obtained from 365 virtual team members...

The work of virtual teams is increasingly important to today’s organizations, work that is accomplished predominantly via computer-mediated communication. The authors investigate the moderating role of experience with instant messaging on the team interpersonal processes (cohesion and openness) to team effectiveness relationship in virtual teams. Data were obtained from 365 virtual team members...

The current increase of virtual projects and their economic importance has led to a new set of challenges that project managers need to overcome. The lack of face-to-face interaction has distorted the traditional ways in which motivation was fostered within project teams. Projects that used to heavily depend on the synergies of team dynamics, can no longer rely on the social aspects of work lif...

This paper presents recent developments in a distributed semantic hypertext framework called DHT that supports software development projects within virtual enterprises. We show how hypertext functionality embodied in DHT solves the practical problems of project coordination. These include collaborative data sharing in a virtual enterprise of distributed teams, integrating existing tools and en...

Virtual teams have made such an impact on many organizational phenomena, particularly knowledge management. Based on socio-technical perspective, this paper suggests that trust and IT are the underlying foundation of knowledge creation in virtual teams. Based on such foundation, this paper proposes a theoretical model of knowledge creation process in virtual teams called Adaptive Social-Externa...

The success of virtual teams depends largely on building and maintaining trust between the team members. Trust is crucial because it is the defining feature of a virtual collaboration. Trust has been identified as the most important component, which makes partnerships, strategic alliances, and networks of small firm successful (Lane and Bachmann, 1998). The purpose of this paper is to describe ...