A variety of polices have in the recent years been used as tools for development of peripheral regions. In the late 1990s have policies for cluster development become popular and widely implemented. Especially policy programs focusing on creating or promoting clusters within the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector have been used with more or less dubious results. Some of the i...

As virtual teams are inherently heterogeneous and distributed in nature they have a greater tendency to fracture into subgroups. Proper management of these subgroups is critical as they are often more detrimental than beneficial. Research that systematically examines subgroup formation is limited in identifying factors that influence the negative or positive impact of subgroups. To address this...

As technology has improved and collaborative software has been developed, virtual teams with geographically dispersed members spread across diverse physical locations have become increasingly prominent. Virtual team is supported by advancing communication technologies, which makes virtual teams able to largely transcend time and space. Virtual teams have changed the corporate landscape, which a...

At the Open University of the Netherlands, the Virtual Business Learning (VBL) concept has been developed over a number of years. VBL serves as an ‘umbrella’ term that covers concepts from both the education and business worlds. Implementations of the VBL concept focus on the coached development of the professional competencies that underlie successfully innovative behavior in ICT intense enter...

Virtual teams are an important work structure in software development projects. However, little is known about what constitutes effective virtual software team leadership, in particular, the amount of leader delegation that is appropriate in a virtual software-development environment. This study investigates virtual software team leader delegation and explores the impact of delegation strategie...

— The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) represent relevant challenges in Spanish universities. Nowadays, Universities are involved in the adaptation of current tittles to this new framework with the support of the Spanish Agency ANECA for quality assurance. This paper reviews the procedure to evaluate curricula in virtual ...

The practice of virtual teams has provided organizations with a convenient solution for gathering experts to collaborate online in order to accomplish organizational tasks. However, the dynamics and characteristics of virtual teams create challenges to effective collaboration. Collaboration is an important element in teamwork, team members need to collaborate to achieve the goal for which the t...