This review summarizes empirical research on the management of virtual teams, ie,
distributed work teams whose members predominantly communicate and coordinate their …

Virtual teams are gaining increasing momentum in contemporary organizations. Although it
is becoming clear that virtual teams will play a major role in shaping the future of work, we …

In this article we review literature to build a broad understanding of what constitutes e-
leadership in organizations. We propose a framework based on Adaptive Structuration …

Escribimos este libro para los estudiantes de escuelas de negocios que requieren un
análisis detallado sobre la forma en que las empresas contemporáneas utilizan las …

Individuals increasingly rely on healthcare virtual support communities (HVSCs) for social
support and companionship. While research provides interesting insights into the drivers of …

Social loafing is the tendency of individuals to withhold contributions to a task in a team
setting. Team size and dispersion are two primary drivers of social loafing in technology …

There are several theories available to describe how managers choose a medium for
communication. However, current technology can affect not only how we communicate but …

Research on group brainstorming has demonstrated that it is less effective for generating
large numbers of ideas than individual brainstorming, yet various scholars have presumed …

Research on group behavior has identified social loafing, ie, the tendency of members to do
less than their potential, as a particularly serious problem plaguing groups. Social Impact …

Virtual teams are increasingly common in organizations, yet explicit theory and research on
virtual team processes and outcomes is relatively rare. In this chapter, we first place virtual …