Information technology can facilitate the dissemination of knowledge across the organization-
even to the point of making virtual teams a viable alternative to face-to-face work. However …

Virtual teams are becoming a preferred mechanism for harnessing, integrating, and applying
knowledge that is distributed across organizations and in pockets of collaborative networks …

Teams by their very nature are interdependent. Although they assign roles, differentiate
responsibilities, and hire members with complementary skills, the purpose of teams is to …

Executive Overview Managers are challenged to develop strategically flexible organizations
in response to increasingly competitive marketplaces. Fortunately, a new generation of …

Software development is an intensely knowledge-intensive industry that demands
collaboration on behalf of everyone who participates in the process. Moreover, the …

Virtual Teams That Work offers a much-needed, comprehensive guidebook for business
leaders and managers who want to create the organizational conditions that will help virtual …

This study focuses on a challenge faced by multinational corporations: how to enhance
knowledge sharing across geographical and functional boundaries given the multifaceted …

In this paper, we seek to encourage scholars to consider how reliance on technology-
mediated communications can bring both promises and perils to team-based work …

As virtual teams are becoming more frequently implemented within organizations, research
examining the effect of virtual tool use on team functioning has correspondingly expanded …

Annotation Twenty essays present current research on knowledge management as related
to effective design of new organization forms. The first section of the book covers …