We investigated coordination and communication processes in global virtual software development teams in three Indian multinational technology firms. While some of the teams in our study experienced many of the same things observed in prior research, some operated in strikingly different ways, so different, in fact, that they led us to propose a new type of organization for global virtual teams...

A total of 41 1 subjects participated in two decision-making experiments in order to examine the effectiveness of new product development project continuation decisions. Using escalation of commitment theory, in Study 1 , individual versus face-to-face team decision-making effectiveness was compared. Study 2, an extension of Study 1, compared the new product development decision-making effectiv...

Despite widespread and growing prevalence of virtual teams, there is little understanding of the way virtual teams benefit from global distribution. Virtual teams are predicted by many to be the form that is much more flexible than traditional teams. As part of an ongoing research, in this paper we present a theoretical framework towards unraveling the relationship between the level of virtuali...

Leadership is a key challenge of virtual teams. A particular leadership style, namely inspirational leadership, which is a sub-category of transformational leadership, has been found to be especially suited for the study of highly diverse teams. Virtual team leaders increasingly have to manage global virtual teams that contain members from different cultural backgrounds and value orientations. ...

The sharing of knowledge is critical in the virtual team configurations that mainly interact and coordinate through information and communication technologies. However, multiple boundaries are assumed to exist within virtual teams that may pose several challenges to effective knowledge sharing. This study distinguishes between functional, organizational, and cultural boundaries and investigates...

Virtual teams play an increasingly important role in the modern economy, and many organizations struggle to overcome the weaknesses inherent in technology-mediated work. Identity communication has been shown to greatly improve individualand group-level outcomes in offline settings, but these benefits have not been investigated in the context of virtual teams, where mediated interaction can affe...

Although software development projects increasingly incorporate virtual team members, most research performed on project risk to date was conducted on projects using traditional co-located teams incorporating face-to-face communications. This paper identifies a set of risk factors particularly important to virtual teams but rarely discussed. Results, from a survey of over 150 Information Techno...

This article takes stock of the current state of research on knowledge processes in virtual teams and consolidates the extent research findings. Virtual teams, on the one hand, constitute important organizational entities that facilitate the integration of diverse and distributed knowledge resources. On the other hand, collaborating in a virtual environment creates particular challenges for the...

Virtual teaming involving online presentations and peer reviews support the notion of collaborative student learning, whilst preparing them for the virtual work environment. However, implementation and administration of such teams, particularly when constraints include large numbers of multi-cultural students, within a complex multi-campus structure, needs careful planning and management. This ...

Although globalization has been a political and economic concern for centuries (see Distributed Work, reviewed below) its impact on the engineering education community has become particularly salient since the publication of the Engineer of 2020 (NAE, 2003), Educating the Engineer of 2020 (NAE, 2005) and The World is Flat (Friedman, 2005). These and subsequent publications have emphasized the c...