Interpersonal Relationships in Transnational, Virtual Teams – Towards a Configurational Perspective

Virtual Transnational Teams and Their Use of Advanced Information Technology

Individual Factors in Virtual Teams: A TIP Theory Perspective

In the pursuit of rapid software development, globally distributed information systems development teams are a growing phenomena in many organization. In order to be successful, these teams must have members who will be high degree of unity and are satisfied upon completion of the project. In order to test some possible factors that may be important in distributed team selection we must first u...

A Structurational Perspective on Leadership in Virtual Teams

Building on behavioural leadership theory and structuration theory, we present a two-order theory of leadership. It describes four classes of firstorder leadership behaviours (task coordination, substantive task contribution, group maintenance and boundary spanning) and defines second-order leadership as behaviour that influences changes in the structure that guides group action. We argue that ...

Emergent states in virtual teams: a complex adaptive systems perspective

Research on virtual teams (VTs) has proliferated in the last decades. However, few clear and consistent theoretical attempts to integrate the literature on VTs in a systemic way have emerged. This paper uses the complex adaptive systems (CAS) perspective to integrate the literature on emergent states in VTs. According to this general framework, VT effectiveness depends on the interaction betwee...

Diversity in Global Virtual Teams: A Partnership Development Perspective

This dissertation is an attempt to develop and test a comprehensive model for global virtual team effectiveness based on development of partnership among diverse team members and the moderating role of collaborative technology and task interdependence. The model will be tested using filed survey methodology. The model is based on traditional I-P-O framework for understanding team effectiveness....