Bridging space over time: Global virtual team dynamics and effectiveness

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Maznevski, ML; Chudoba, KM
• 署名单位: University of Virginia; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.5.473.15200
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 473-492
• 关键词: distributed teams; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION; Global virtual teams; GROUNDED THEORY; media choice; multicultural teams; temporal rhythms

摘要

Virtual teams comprise an important structural component of many organizations and are particularly important in globally dispersed enterprises. This article reports an intensive study of three global virtual teams within a single organization. Using adaptive structuration theory as a template for organizing and interpreting both qualitative and quantitative data, the authors offer an important view of how effective virtual teams operate. Effective global virtual teams fit their communication patterns to the task, and they generate a deep rhythm of face-to-face communications interspersed among periods of remote communication.