We present e-collaboration as an innovative e-learning concept, which provides three main potentials for e-business qualification. Collaboration in the virtual classroom develops the soft skills necessary for working in global virtual teams. Project experiences, based on authentic case studies, help students to transfer their academic knowledge to the e-business application level. Our problem-b...

‘Global Projects’ and Virtual Teams’ are revolutionizing the construction industry. An increasing number of multi-national engineering firms adopting this business model due to possible advantages cost time optimization. However, literature identifies several challenges that project teams endure in temporarily organizing while transitioning through space, some which include cross-cultural diffe...

The paper describes a systems acquisition simulation using virtual teams in a health care informatics course. The simulation enables virtual teams to participate in a systems acquisition decision for an electronic health records (EMR) system. Each virtual team used a web-based team communications discussion board to assess the attributes of each system, to discuss alternatives, and to reach a d...

This paper, through the voices of two professors and a student, describes an educational experience that exposed students to virtual teams constructed between Information Technology Project Management classes of two branch campuses of the Pennsylvania State University. This experience focused on overcoming the communication problems of virtual teams in order to strengthen team building dynamics...

While there has been much research on the study of global virtual teams and global software teams, there has been practically no research on the nuances of time separation. We present three converging perspectives on this topic: (a) a view from practices and tactics of global teams; (b) a theoretical view from coordination theories; and (c) a view from our prior research in which we modeled coo...

Purpose: Knowledge Work (KW) is a well-researched topic. However, KW is difficult to measure and little consensus has been reached on elements that affect knowledge work productivity on a team level. The current theories neglect teams working in distributed geographical areas. The purpose of the paper is to integrate recent literature on knowledge work productivity (KWP) in distributed teams an...

In this paper, we develop an understanding of how virtual teams develop over time by inductively studying communication transactions of 12 United States-Canadian student virtual teams involved in ISD. Our analysis is based upon two influential streams of social science research: (1) interaction analysis, which aided in the examination of the micro-processes of communication among members of a v...