Estudio Exploratorio de los Factores Relacionados con el Éxito en una Colaboración Internacional Apoyada por Medios Electrónicos

In worldwide organizations, the share of collaborative work is increasing steadily and, in the current global economy, the collaborative work is international in nature. With the availability and increased use of information and communication technologies most of the international collaborative work is electronic-mediated. This exploratory empirical research is an attempt to identify some factors that relate to success in electronic-mediated international collaboration (EMIC). We studied an EMIC experience between two groups of graduate students, one working from U.S. and the other from Mexico. Process issues such as the percentage of total project time spent on defining the project scope and the level of effort on intra-country activities had a significant positive effect on perceived project success. Number of years of full-time work experience was an individual factor that had a significant positive impact. Results indicate that participants tend to over estimate the impact of some differences in characteristics between groups from different countries on project success.