Increasing global operations of companies and advances in communication technologies the last two decades have led to create virtual team, which employees work more productively cost-effectively from different locations. This situation required team leaders a perspective management approach than who manage teams usual offices. Performance is one vital tasks multidimensional research topic for r...

Teams of agents can be made more effective by the introduction of team assistants to accomplish specific tasks. Team assistants may be real or virtual and may be first class team members or only team adjuncts. For example, a team assistant may be created as a virtual, first class team member to serve as team manager to coordinate the actions of team members. The need for a team assistant might ...

Recently, there has been extraordinary propagation in the number of virtual teams for knowledge sharing; however, finding out what affects team member’s behavior is important. This paper integrates the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) and the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to construct a model for investigating the socio-behavioral factors behind virtual knowledge sharing. The results of previ...

Virtual teams are becoming common place in many organizations. These teams are geographically distributed and communicate via computer-mediated communication systems. Two factors have been shown to affect virtual team communications, the development of relational links and the amount of trust between team members. However, most virtual team members do not receive training on how to effectively ...

School of Management, Edith Cowan University, Australia [email protected] Dr Ying-Chieh Liu Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan [email protected] A review of the literature shows the factors that impact on the effectiveness of virtual teams are still ambiguous. To address this problem we developed a research design that included a meta-analysis...