OBJECTIVES To determine whether practice structure (for example, list size, number of staff) predicts team processes and whether practice structure and team process in turn predict team outcomes DESIGN Observational study using postal questionnaires and medical note audit. Team process was assessed through a measure of "climate" which examines shared perceptions of organisational policies, pr...

The sharing of knowledge within teams is critical to team functioning. However, working with team members who are in different locations (i.e. in virtual teams) may introduce communication challenges and reduce opportunities for rich interactions, potentially affecting knowledge sharing and its outcomes. Therefore, using questionnaire-based data, this study examined the potential effects of dif...

Inspection is an effective but also expensive quality assurance activity to find defects early during software development. The defect detection process, team size, and staff hours invested can have a considerable impact on the defect detection effectiveness and cost-benefit of an inspection. In this paper, we use empirical data and a probabilistic model to estimate this impact for nominal (non...

Abstract This study examines the effectiveness of virtual team learning for entrepreneurship competence in Chinese higher education sector. Related research on is sparse, especially area education. We assumed four hypotheses to analyze two sorts relationships: one between input, respondents’ demographics or characteristics, and mediators, namely teamwork, taskwork, information communication tec...