Managing virtual teams
TL;DR: The report sets out ten recommendations on how to make effective use of virtual teams and virtual team meetings, and focuses in particular on the management of virtual team meetings.
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Abstract: A virtual team is formed when at least one of the members of the team works in a different location, time zone or culture. Virtual teams have been used for many years and a significant amount of knowledge has been built up about good practices in managing virtual teams and in particular managing virtual meetings. Over the last few years there has been a great deal of emphasis on improving collaborative working practices, and this is often the justification for investment in new technologies. Usually there is no metric of collaboration effectiveness so there is no means of knowing if the technology made a difference. Many of the reports, papers, conferences and books on collaboration and social media seem to assume that team working only takes place between people working in the same company, the same country and speaking the same language. Research published in the Digital Workplace Trends report suggests that over 75% of companies with more than 50,000 employees run into problems with language and culture in team working. This Research Paper sets out the benefits and challenges of virtual teams, and focuses in particular on the management of virtual team meetings. More information and guidance is to be found in three recent books on the management of virtual teams which are listed in the Resources section along with some surveys and research papers on virtual team management. The report sets out ten recommendations on how to make effective use of virtual teams and virtual team meetings.
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Trust in Virtual Teams: A Multidisciplinary Review and Integration
TL;DR: A systematic theoretical review of 124 articles from the disparate, multidisciplinary literature on trust in VTs is used to develop an integrated model of trust inVTs and concludes with guidelines for managing VTs in the future workplace.
Managing virtual teams for open innovation in Global Business Services industry
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of human dimensions, team climates, and technological features on Global Virtual Team (GVT) performance in the Malaysian Global Business Services (GBS) industry is investigated.
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Open-Innovation Effectiveness: When does the Macro Design of Alliance Portfolios Matter?
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the macro-design of a firm's alliance portfolio on its open-innovation effectiveness was determined. And they found a U-shaped relationship between knowledge-sourcing breadth and international diversity.
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