Bridging Space Over Time: Global Virtual Team Dynamics and Effectiveness

Bridging Space over Time: Global Virtual Team Dynamics and Effectiveness

Global virtual teams are internationally distributed groups of people with an organizational mandate to make or implement decisions with international components and implications. They are typically assigned tasks that are strategically important and highly complex. They rarely meet in person, conducting almost all of their interaction and decision making using communications technology. Althou...

Networked Music: Bridging Real and Virtual Space

This paper describes an exploration of utilizing the World Wide Web for interactive music. The origin of this investigation was the intermedia work Telemusic #1, by Randall Packer, which combined live performers with live public participation via the Web. During the event, visitors to the site navigated through a virtual interface, and while manipulating elements, projected their actions in the...

Virtual team effectiveness: a proposed research agenda

Contemporary competitive demands have forced many organizations to increase levels of flexibility and adaptability in their operations. A growing number of such organizations have explored the virtual environment as one means of achieving increased responsiveness. In particular, the use of virtual teams appears to be on the increase. However, the increased use of virtual teams has not been acco...

Dynamics over Teichmüller Space

Real - Time Global Virtual

The world is replete with the infrastructure for distributed computing. Such computing takes place every day in various forms and is growing exponentially. The future will bring more and more virtual distributed systems that execute on and across this worldwide hardware-software platform. These virtual distributed systems will grow in sophistication, have diierent purposes, and exist to provide...