Everything about Virtual team
Team whose members collaborate remotely
A virtual team usually refers to a group of individuals who work together from different geographic locations and rely on communication technology such as email, instant messaging, and video or voice conferencing services in order to collaborate. The term can also refer to groups or teams that work together asynchronously or across organizational levels. Powell, Piccoli and Ives (2004) define virtual teams as "groups of geographically, organizationally and/or time dispersed workers brought together by information and telecommunication technologies to accomplish one or more organizational tasks." As documented by Gibson (2020), virtual teams grew in importance and number during 2000-2020, particularly in light of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic which forced many workers to collaborate remotely with each other as they worked from home. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Virtual teamA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Do Team Charters Help Team-Based Projects? The Effects of Team Charters on Performance and Satisfaction in Global Virtual TeamsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Uniting the Virtual WorkforceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Communication and Trust in Global Virtual TeamsCited 1,786 times
- Go sideways: Virtual managementA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Swift trust theoryA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams
Training to improve virtual team communication
Virtual teams: team control structure, work processes, and team effectiveness
Identifying antecedents of virtual team collaboration
The “virtual team player”
The virtual design team
Virtual Team Leadership
Virtual Team Trust
🆕 Influential since 2022
Do Team Charters Help Team-Based Projects? The Effects of Team Charters on Performance and Satisfaction in Global Virtual Teams
Virtual Fitness: investigating team commitment and post-pandemic virtual workout perceptions
Contextualising collective efficacy in virtual team research: The essential role of collaborative technologies in the virtual team efficacy conceptual framework
TEAMs go VR—validating the TEAM in a virtual reality (VR) medical team training
Improving Virtual Team Collaboration Paradox Management: A Field Experiment
📚 Books worth reading
Uniting the Virtual WorkforceKaren Sobel Lojeski · 2008
Working VirtuallyTrina Hoefling · 2001- 📕Leading virtual project teamsMargaret R. Lee · 2013
Leading effective virtual teamsNancy M. Settle-Murphy · 2012- 📕Organizational Behavior and Virtual WorkArvind K. Birdie, Madhu Jain · 2016
Trust in Virtual TeamsThomas P. Wise · 2013- 📕Digital Renaissance of WorkPaul Miller, Elizabeth Marsh · 2014
Leading the virtual workforceKaren Sobel Lojeski · 2009
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🔗 Related topics
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- Virtual collaboration Virtual collaboration is the method of collaboration between virtual team members that is carried out via technology-mediated communication. Virtual collaborati…
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