in recent years, virtual communities have been significantly popular and almost all of them are targeted for business profitability. in our study, the profitability of these communities for businesses has been analyzed from a commercial perspective. the study considers virtual community as a business model which can have a great impact on consumer purchase decision process. with respect to refe...

Virtual communities play an important part in enabling people with common interests to interact with each other. Current research mostly focuses on the aspects of social interaction, usability and success factors for virtual communities. However, few studies have analysed how management teams affect virtual communities. Therefore, our research focuses on the role of management teams for the suc...

Despite popular expectation that use of time management techniques will improve team performance, virtual teams still fail to perform well in practice. Past research has produced mixed results for the efficacy of time management on team performance. In this preliminary study, we investigate the effect of time management on virtual team performance. Using the punctuated equilibrium model of grou...

Organizations resisting changes are missing opportunities to grow or to become or remain competitive. Management Information Systems (MIS) used as decision support systems may support organizations in making use of changes in environmental conditions. Nevertheless, innovative structures are needed to motivate organizations contributing in change projects. In this study, a virtual team scorecard...

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

The importance of virtual team (VT) identification for the success of theteam is widely recognized in literature. However, the antecedents of identifi-cation in virtual teams have remained understudied thus far. This study aimsat filling this gap by examining how identification with VTs is related to struc-tural factors such as the degree of virtuality, team size, cultural d...

The aim of this exploratory study was to develop a blended learning approach to fostering the skills and competencies required by leaders and members of international virtual teams. Three levels of analysis were brought to bear in designing the proposed intervention format: first, the factors likely to influence the effectiveness of a virtual team; second, the needs and challenges related to th...

As participation in virtual community becomes popular, it is important to know how to encourage individuals to contribute actively and assist other members share their expertise. Through the lens of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), we explored the factors that facilitate voluntary knowledge sharing in a virtual community. We examined OCB in online gaming communities in which various b...