Increasing global operations of companies and advances in communication technologies the last two decades have led to create virtual team, which employees work more productively cost-effectively from different locations. This situation required team leaders a perspective management approach than who manage teams usual offices. Performance is one vital tasks multidimensional research topic for r...

This paper explores potential advantages of using virtual teams for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on various aspects of virtual teams. Based on the standing of the pertinent literatures, attempt has been made to study the aspects by online survey method in Iran and Malaysia. In both countries, SMEs play an important role in their economies, employments, a...

There has been growing interest in virtual teams, and more specifically in virtual software development. Requirements engineering, which is a crucial phase in software development provides another dimension when software development occurs in a virtual domain. While formal software development methods are the obvious first choice for project managers to ensure a virtual software development tea...

This study examined the etiology of transformational leadership in virtual team contexts. First, we compared 127 members of virtual decision-making teams with 135 members of traditional face-to-face teams in terms of the relationship between aspects of personality and the emergence of transformational leadership. The type of communication media (face-to-face versus “pure” virtual) was found to ...