This paper explores potential advantages and barriers of virtual teams toward making an interrelation between small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams in SMEs based on authentic and reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview of what is known about the structure and dynamics of...

The trend toward physically dispersed work groups has necessitated a fresh inquiry into the role and nature of team leadership in virtual settings. To accomplish this, we assembled thirteen culturally diverse global teams from locations in Europe, Mexico, and the United States, assigning each team a project leader and task to complete. The findings suggest that effective team leaders demonstrat...

Virtual machines provide a promising platform for computational Grids. By their very nature -virtualization of underlying hardware -they enable instantiation of a new, independently configured guest environment on a host resource. In addition, they offer the benefits of isolation and fine-grain enforcement and, given the ability to serialize their state and migrate, offer increased flexibility ...

INTRODUCTION The field of organizational behavior defines leadership as " the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals " (Capella, 2005, p. 294). Leadership styles have been well studied and researched. Early leadership studies were developed using traditional, co-located work arrangements in mind. Later studies expanded to include traditional project team environments. In t...

The time-space configurations of place and space are used to ground an analysis and discussion of the constitutive role of place, or virtual team members’ respective local contexts, in the conduct of virtual teamwork. In contrast to the majority of current virtual teams research, which emphasizes the “spatial,” or virtual aspect of virtual teamwork, this study uses an extended example, the esta...

Information Technology (IT) provides the infrastructure for communication and collaboration tools for virtual teams, but Henttonen and Blomqvist (2005) suggest that it is the relational communication and factors of trust, commitment and communication that attention. This case study presents a team building strategy for such interaction. Off-campus students in an undergraduate course apply techn...

The virtuality of organizational teams have gained interest and popularity in recent years, become more prevalent amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizational productivity team relationship-building may suffer certain pitfalls virtual communication support without understanding dynamics short-term, project-based teams. manuscript aimed to expand what is currently known about short-term related ...

This paper examines the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in enhancing the well-being of nations. Extending research on the role of ICT in the productivity of nations, we posit that the effects of ICT may not be limited to productivity (e.g., GDP), and we argue that the use of ICT can also improve the well-being of a country by helping citizens to develop their social capit...