This study is an attempt to develop and test a comprehensive model for global virtual team (GVT) effectiveness based on development of collaborative partnership among diverse team members and the moderating role of collaborative technology and task. The research is an ongoing dissertation work. The conceptual model is based on traditional I-P-O framework for understanding GVT effectiveness. Tea...

The scale of developments in global virtual teams, which consist of the members around the world to cooperate for a specific purpose, is increasing in the growing network environments. In this paper, we discuss the facilities required for the tools supporting collaboration in virtual teams, which includes problems on the language and physical distribution of members. We have developed a communi...

1 Impact of Trust on Communication in Global Virtual Teams Päivi Lohikoski, Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Jaakko Kujala, Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Harri Haapasalo, Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Kirsi Aaltonen, Industrial Engineering and Management, University of O...

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...

In this study, we explore the nature of team interaction and the role of temporal coordination in asynchronously communicating global virtual project teams (GVPTs). Drawing on Time, Interaction, and Performance (TIP) theory [34], we consider how and why virtual team behavior is temporally patterned in complex ways. We report on the results of an experiment consisting of 35 virtual project teams...

This dissertation is an attempt to develop and test a comprehensive model for global virtual team effectiveness based on development of partnership among diverse team members and the moderating role of collaborative technology and task interdependence. The model will be tested using filed survey methodology. The model is based on traditional I-P-O framework for understanding team effectiveness....

I propose to study the impact of national cultural differences on knowledge sharing activities in global virtual teams. Specially, I will put the research in a specific context of Chinese culture and the U.S. culture. Only Chinese perceptions of the impact of cultural differences between China and the U.S. will be studied. I propose to use a two-phase study. In phase one, an exploratory case st...

Modern organizations face many significant challenges because of turbulent environments and a competitive global economy. Among these challenges are the use of information and communication technology (ICT), a multicultural workforce, and organizational designs that involve global virtual teams. Ad hoc teams create both opportunities and challenges for organizations and many organizations are t...

This study proposes a behavioural complexity theory for media selection in global virtual teams. This theory captures multiple contingencies into one holistic approach to media selection. Unlike existing linear and mechanistic theories of media selection, this heuristic theory moves away from the universal models that were previously proposed. The behavioural complexity theory assumes ambiguity...

Multinational Enterprises face major impediments to transferring firm specific advantages within the MNE network given their relatively low capacity to absorb knowledge from other internationally dispersed units. Additionally, because MNE units are located in two (or more) distinct nations, the effectiveness of crossborder transfer of organizational knowledge is profoundly affected by the cultu...