Virtual teams [electronic resource] : projects, protocols and processes / [edited by] David J. Pauleen.

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Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2004.Description: electronic texts (xvi, 352 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:

1591401674 (ebook)
9781591401674 (ebook)

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658.4/022 22

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HD66 .V56 2004e

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Contents:

The Multifaceted Nature of Virtual Teams / Line Dub�e, Guy Par�e -- Trust and the Trust Placement Process in Metateam Projects / Walter D. Fern�andez -- The Impact of External Factors on Virtual Teams: Comparative Cases / Andrea Hornett -- A Virtual Team in Action: An Illustration of a Business Development Virtual Team / Ian K. Wong, D. Sandy Staples -- Long Distance Leadership: Communicative Strategies for Leading Virtual Teams / Stacey L. Connaughton, John A. Daly -- Toward Integration of Artifacts, Resources and Processes for Virtual Teams / Schahram Dustdar -- Best Practices for Virtual Team Effectiveness / D. Sandy Staples, Ian K. Wong, Ann Frances Cameron -- Varieties of Virtual Organizations and Their Knowledge Sharing Systems / Andrea Hornett -- Effective Virtual Teams / Tammie D. Hertel -- Prelude to Virtual Groups: Leadership and Technology in Semivirtual Groups / Terri L. Griffith, David K. Meader -- Mediating Complexity: Facilitating Relationship Building Across Boundaries in Start-Up Virtual Teams / David J. Pauleen, Lalita Rajasingham -- Factors Contributing to Knowledge Sharing and Communication in a Large Virtual Work Group / Olivia Ernst Neece -- Trust, Rationality and the Virtual Team / Peter Murphy.

Abstract: Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance, and organizations through the use of information and communications technology. This book gathers the best of academic research on real work-based virtual teams into one book. It offers a series of chapters featuring practical research, insight and recommendations on how virtual team projects can be better managed, as well as in depth discussion on issues critical to virtual team success, including the place of virtual teams in organizations, leadership, trust and relationship building, best use of technology, and knowledge sharing.

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Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance, and organizations through the use of information and communications technology. This book gathers the best of academic research on real work-based virtual teams into one book. It offers a series of chapters featuring practical research, insight and recommendations on how virtual team projects can be better managed, as well as in depth discussion on issues critical to virtual team success, including the place of virtual teams in organizations, leadership, trust and relationship building, best use of technology, and knowledge sharing.

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