Effective decision making is critical to team effectiveness. We examine decision making in the setting of self-organizing virtual teams, a setting that we expect to pose particular problems for effective decision making. A self-organizing team must develop effective practices in the absence of a formal organizational structure that guides the practices. A virtual team’s reliance on technologica...

The rise of the Internet and the rapid development of long distance communication technologies have made easy for people all over the world to work together. Global information and communication technology platform allowed more people to collaborate, share knowledge and work flexible, efficient and with low costs. Based on the benefits and challenges of virtual teams, the paper debates some pra...

Mixed reality environments allow collaborative interaction with shared virtual objects to extend beyond participants wearing head mounted displays. Teams of collaborators can now share perspectives within a virtual space, and share their experiences with others through the use of green screens and realtime camera mixing. Our work proposes to explore commodity-based mixed reality as a personaliz...

A total of 41 1 subjects participated in two decision-making experiments in order to examine the effectiveness of new product development project continuation decisions. Using escalation of commitment theory, in Study 1 , individual versus face-to-face team decision-making effectiveness was compared. Study 2, an extension of Study 1, compared the new product development decision-making effectiv...

Context: The globalisation of activities associated with software development and use has introduced many challenges in practice, and also (therefore) many for research. While the predominant approach to research in software engineering has followed a positivist science model, this approach may be sub-optimal when addressing problems with a dominant social or cultural dimension, such as those f...

Virtual teams play an increasingly important role in the modern economy, and many organizations struggle to overcome the weaknesses inherent in technology-mediated work. Identity communication has been shown to greatly improve individualand group-level outcomes in offline settings, but these benefits have not been investigated in the context of virtual teams, where mediated interaction can affe...

Although software development projects increasingly incorporate virtual team members, most research performed on project risk to date was conducted on projects using traditional co-located teams incorporating face-to-face communications. This paper identifies a set of risk factors particularly important to virtual teams but rarely discussed. Results, from a survey of over 150 Information Techno...

This article takes stock of the current state of research on knowledge processes in virtual teams and consolidates the extent research findings. Virtual teams, on the one hand, constitute important organizational entities that facilitate the integration of diverse and distributed knowledge resources. On the other hand, collaborating in a virtual environment creates particular challenges for the...

Virtual teaming involving online presentations and peer reviews support the notion of collaborative student learning, whilst preparing them for the virtual work environment. However, implementation and administration of such teams, particularly when constraints include large numbers of multi-cultural students, within a complex multi-campus structure, needs careful planning and management. This ...

Virtual teams have been researched intensely in the last ten years and there is a growing body of literature on the topic. At this point, the authors need an integrative theory-driven framework through which they can conceptualize the notion of virtual teams and organize and make sense of prior research. This can help them better understand what drives virtual team dynamics and ultimately effec...