- Sizing Up, Onboarding, and Mobilizing Your Virtual Team

Organizations increasingly depend on virtual teams in which geographically distributed individuals use sophisticated technology to interact and collaborate. With the advancement of mobile and wireless technology, mobile support for collaboration among virtual team members is becoming increasingly important and popular. In this research, we study the values of mobile support for virtual team members. Using the qualitative technique, Value-Focused Thinking approach, proposed by Keeney, we interviewed 30 subjects who were involved in information systems development teams and asked them the values of mobile support for virtual collaboration. This study uses Alter's Work Systems Theory as the conceptual foundation.

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Creating the Virtual Team

Disease Management & Health Outcomes ◽

10.2165/00115677-200816030-00002 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 145-153

Author(s):

Roger Mazze

Keyword(s):

Virtual Team

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Virtual team meetings: An analysis of communication and context

Computers in Human Behavior ◽

10.1016/j.chb.2007.01.001 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 2558-2580 ◽

Cited By ~ 59

Author(s):

A.H. Anderson ◽

R. McEwan ◽

J. Bal ◽

J. Carletta

Keyword(s):

Virtual Team ◽

Team Meetings

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The power of individual cultural values in global virtual teams

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management ◽

10.1177/1470595812439868 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 193-210 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Audra I. Mockaitis ◽

Elizabeth L. Rose ◽

Peter Zettinig

Keyword(s):

Cultural Values ◽

Cultural Differences ◽

Virtual Teams ◽

Virtual Team ◽

Global Teams ◽

Global Virtual Teams ◽

Team Processes ◽

Team Members ◽

Face To Face ◽

The Relationship

This paper investigates the perceptions of members of 43 culturally diverse global virtual teams, with respect to team processes and outcomes. Despite widespread acknowledgement of the challenges presented by cultural differences in the context of global teams, little is known about the effect of these differences on team dynamics in the absence of face-to-face interaction. Using a student-based sample, we study the relationship between global virtual team members’ individualistic and collectivistic orientations and their evaluations of trust, interdependence, communication and information sharing, and conflict during the team task. Our results suggest that a collectivist orientation is associated with more favorable impressions regarding global virtual team processes and that cultural differences are not concealed by virtual means of communication.

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