The purpose of this research is to examine whether the team diversity and psychological factors (such as, trust and motivation) can influence performance of short-duration, ad-hoc virtual teams engaged in problem solving tasks. We focus on the diversities of the members of virtual teams across national culture, educational specialization, and collaboration technology proficiency. A laboratory e...

Corporate experience claims that the most efficient interactions are when all project stakeholders are collocated. This is extreme collaboration when people, content, models, and processes are collocated. Nevertheless, the AEC industry experiences a continuous increase in mobility, globalization, collaboration, digital content, interactivity, and convergence of physical and virtual workplaces. ...

Today globally distributed software development has become the norm for many organizations and the popularity of implementing such an approach continues to increase. In these circumstances a strategy often employed is the use of virtual software development teams. Due to the collaborative nature of software development this has proved a difficult and complex endeavor. Research has identified di...

Partially distributed teams (PDTs) are common as organizations collaborate across distances. A PDT has at least one collocated subteam and at least two geographically dispersed subteams. We describe a large-scale experiment that examines student global PDTs working on software requirements for an emergency MIS; the teams comprised one U.S. subteam and one Dutch subteam. Leadership configuration...

The growth of global commerce and the wide availability of communication technologies have encouraged the development of virtual teams which have become more widespread. Despite the more frequent occurrence of these teams there remain many challenges in their structure and use and in the ability of organisations to maximise successful end results. This research uses an ethnographic study of a c...

Information Systems researchers are often concerned with empirical questions spanning more than one level of analysis. For example, virtual teams research provides a good illustration because such teams are inherently hierarchical entities involving the situated nature of individuals within teams. Despite the importance of multilevel research questions to Information Systems research, the liter...

This article reports the findings of a longitudinal study of temporary virtual teams and explores the role of behavior control on trust decline. We conducted an experiment involving 51 temporary virtual teams. Half of the teams were required to comply with behavior control mechanisms traditionally used in colocated teams. Their counterparts were allowed to self-direct. Cynthia Beath was the acc...

In the competitive ma rke t , virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fas ting time-to-ma rket, low-cos t and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enable organizations to pool the talents and expertise of employees and non-employees by eliminating time and space barriers . Nowadays companies are heavily inves tin g in v irt u a l team to enhance t...

This paper develops a conceptual model of a knowledge management system that could be used to develop and implement organizational training strategies for virtual teams. An action research-based case is presented to support and illustrate the contention that action-learning methods can be effectively used to enable and tap into the knowledge generated by virtual teams. Virtual teams are an incr...