Virtual Teams: Projects, Protocols and Processes

by David J. Pauleen (Editor)

Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance, and organizations through the use of information and communications technology. This gathers the best of academic research on real work-based virtual teams into one book. It offers a series of chapters featuring practical research, insight and recommendations on how virtual team projects can be better managed, as well as in depth discussion on issues critical to virtual team success, including the place of virtual teams in organizations, leadership, trust and relationship building, best use of technology, and knowledge sharing.

350 pages, Hardcover

First published October 2, 2003

About the author

David J. Pauleen (PhD) is a professor in the School of Management, Massey University, Albany, New Zealand. Long-term research interests include emerging and virtual work practices, knowledge management, and more recently, the role of wisdom in management. His work has appeared in such journals as the Journal of Management Information Systems, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Knowledge Management, and the Journal of Information Technology. He is also (co-) editor of four books and co-author of the book, Wisdom, Analytics and Wicked Problems: Integral Decisionmaking for the Data Age (2018).