The purpose of this study was to test a structural model to determine which psychosocial constructs affected the purchase intention of athletic team merchandise (ATM). Results from the analyses indicated that the twelve-factor ATM model fit the data from collegiate athletic events well, explaining the various impact factors that lead to purchase intention of athletic team merchandise among spor...

Information Technology (IT) provides the infrastructure for communication and collaboration tools for virtual teams, but Henttonen and Blomqvist (2005) suggest that it is the relational communication and factors of trust, commitment and communication that attention. This case study presents a team building strategy for such interaction. Off-campus students in an undergraduate course apply techn...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify key factors affecting research capacity and engagement of allied health professionals working in a large metropolitan health service. Identifying such factors will assist in determining strategies for building research capacity in allied health. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 276 allied health professionals working within the Sydney Local Heal...

In this chapter, we adopt a sociotechnical systems approach to understand the challenges faced by members of an organizational unit that is not constrained by geographical, temporal, organizational, or national boundaries. Specifically, we examine virtual team performance within the context of an open sociotechnical system, highlighting the effects that the technological subsystem (e.g., collab...

Advances in technology have over the last two decades supported the development of virtual teams, constituted of geographically distributed members collaborating through technology. Virtual teams are formed to perform complex tasks, and successful decision-making is crucial for their performance. Despite the popularity of virtual teams, little is known about the nature of decision-making in the...

The use of virtual teams is prevalent in organizations. Managers and CIOs face questions and issues regarding the organization and effectiveness of virtual teams. It is important for information systems researchers to study and understand virtual team and communication media issues. The objective of this research is to provide clarity to media impacts theories and better understand media impact...

literature proves the importance of the process role in the effectiveness of virtual research and development (R&D) teams for new product development (NPD). However, the factors that make process construct in a virtual R&D team are still unclear. The manager of virtual R&D teams for NPD does not know which items of process should be used. To address the gap and answer the question, the study pr...

This thesis explores the concept of social presence in team-based digital games, aiming to enlighten the core elements of social presence in this specific multi-user experience. The thesis achieves this exploration in three main ways, by using a novel approach to establish the core elements of social presence in teambased digital games, by developing a new measure for social presence specifical...

With the advanced communication technology and working from home concept, many organisations are relied on virtual teams to accomplish business activities across their remote branches or global affiliations.This paper presentedthe formulation of Model factors affecting Virtual Team Performance in UAEorganisations. The modelconsisted two independent variables namely Communication Competence nad ...