Virtual teams are an important work structure in software development projects. However, little is known about what constitutes effective virtual software team leadership, in particular, the amount of leader delegation that is appropriate in a virtual software-development environment. This study investigates virtual software team leader delegation and explores the impact of delegation strategie...

This paper explores the process by which Global Virtual Teams (GVTs), namely groups of geographically dispersed and culturally diverse members, carry out most of their activities using information technology. Three case studies have been conducted and will be described here. These studies investigate specifically the creative process stages of GVTs and other factors susceptible to affect team m...

This paper will present the main topics of our team. The IVGI Team (French acronym for Virtual Engineering for Industrial Engineering) defines methods for the integration of several models in the system-design process. The focus is on the integration of cost factors and human factors based on a FBS-PPR model designed to capture enterprise knowledge. For these fields, cost, human and knowledge, ...

Despite the differences between virtual and collocated teams, empirical studies have identified a number of challenges that virtual teams experience. We argue, in this work-in-progress study, that habits constitute a good explanatory factor for understanding behaviour in the virtual team environment. In this study, we analyse ‘offline’ habits in the cases of student-based global virtual teams a...

Although a tremendous amount of research in the last decade has begun to disentangle interaction factors and performance outcomes associated with virtual teams, significant gaps still exist in our understanding, particularly in terms of virtual team leadership. Shared leadership may be particularly important to virtual teams, where team members’ separation from the leader and from one another m...

The Park Place Economist, Volume XIII

In this paper,we examine the potential differential effects of two types of interpersonal trust (sincerity-based trust and ability-based trust) on knowledge sharing in virtual teams in China. Our analysis suggests that sincerity-based trust is more likely to affect a virtual team member’s propensity to transfer explicit knowledge to his or her teammates, while ability-based trust seems to have ...

New interaction tools such as internet allows companies to gain valuable input from research and development (R&D) engineers via virtual teams. Consequently engineers also get more expertise in diminutive timeframes. Virtual R&D teams present the key impetus to the technology acquisition process. The present knowledge-economy era is characterized by short product life-cycles. Virtual R&D teams ...

Assessment of performance in the sports industry is an important issue which has attracted the attention of many researchers. One of the important human resources that have a prominent role in the success of sports organizations are coaches and especially club coaches that smallest decisions of them can affect the performance of the entire organization. The purpose of this study was to explore ...