This article addresses the potential of virtual worlds as a platform for creative team collaboration. The proliferation of geographically distributed teams, striving towards innovative results, calls for ICT that support team creativity. Three-dimensional virtual worlds represent such an emergent and rapidly developing collaboration tool. A systematic literature review was conducted to reveal t...

This article makes recommendations to help team leaders effectively use ICT channels to develop and improve trust within their distributed virtual teams which will allow achieving a more effective team collaboration. Based on thorough review of the literature and content analysis, we have identified 29 factors for trust-building in this environment based on Cognitive Trust and seven factors bas...

Purpose – This paper proposes the concepts of Communities of Enterprise (CoEs) and Virtual Communities of Enterprise (VCoEs) to describe business networking patterns in regional areas where there is no central organisational or industry focus and small and medium enterprises dominate the economy. Design/methodology/approach – Based on analysis of the literature this paper builds on theoretical ...

Virtual team in a project within an organization could achieve optimize project performance by acquiring appropriate human resources, coordination, communication and regular performance evaluation. According to the literature many ICT tools will collaborate to manage virtual teams, but still most of the projects lead to failure in the software industry. Aim of this research is to discover the m...

This study explores how team leaders sense the need for technology adaptation intervention in distributed, computermediated (“virtual”) teams. Analysis and coding of critical incident data collected in interviews of practicing leaders produce a five-trigger model including (1) external constraint, (2) internal constraint, (3) information and communication technology (ICT) inadequacy, (4) ICT kn...

Most so-called virtual teams are virtual by degree only. The dichotomy of face-to-face versus virtual teams is a research-led phenomenon. Many teams are using combinations of face-to-face communication and ICT, and can be considered transitional or semivirtual teams. Many of these teams cross multiple boundaries, including those of time, distance, organization and culture. This paper takes an i...

The advances in ICT and also the advent of the Internet have changed the way we work in the new millenium. Virtual teamworking has already been practised extensively in the West but in the case of Malaysia, a developing country is still struggling to get a strong foothold. In lieu of the above this study looks at the impact of internal group dynamics, team characteristics on the effectiveness o...

This paper seeks to add to the nascent research literature on virtual teams and virtual team leadership by investigating the issues facing virtual team leaders as they implement and lead virtual teams. In particular, the way in which leaders develop relationships with their virtual team members is explored. A research framework involving action learning was instituted, with data collection and ...

Advancesincommunicationandinformationtechnologycreatenewopportunitiesfororganizations to build andmanagevirtual teams.Virtual teamshavebecome a norm for organizationswhose memberswork across disparate geographical locations, relying primarily or exclusively, on the usageofInformationandCommunicationsTechnology(ICT)forthecompletionofcommongoals....