Leadership is a key challenge of virtual teams. A particular leadership style, namely inspirational leadership, which is a sub-category of transformational leadership, has been found to be especially suited for the study of highly diverse teams. Virtual team leaders increasingly have to manage global virtual teams that contain members from different cultural backgrounds and value orientations. ...

There is a growing number of multinational companies operating around the world, both in terms their numbers and amount investments abroad. Along with this expansion, there noticeable trend among major to establish virtual workplaces order take advantage benefits global teams. This study aims increase in-depth knowledge teams business. paper relies on qualitative methodology through an content ...

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 is a widely recognised view that trust is a vital requirement and a ‘need to have’ quality for effective virtual teams. Despite, however, this acknowledged importance of trust, only limited empirical research exists to date that explores the challenges of creating and developing trust relationships in the global business environment. This paper develops a theoretical framework for concept...

The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have a high potential for SMEs growth. Due to the fast growing complexity of the new product, coupled with new em...

Despite the expected benefits of global virtual teams, their performance has been spotty and management continues to search for reasons why these teams fail. This work addresses this issue by performing a longitudinal case study of two virtual teams in order to uncover why one was more successful than the other. The study found that a key factor for one team’s poor performance was the entrainme...

Innovations in communication and decision support technology are providing organizations the ability to enhance performance by creating virtual teams. When valuable members are geographically and organizationally dispersed, the creation of virtual teams provides the flexibility to draw on knowledge, skills, and perspectives that would not be available for on-site collaboration. Virtual teams po...