Title: Goals, relationships, information and processes in global virtual team performance

Authors: Michael Workman

Addresses: B. Louis Shores Building, School of Information Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2100, USA

Abstract: The implementation of virtual teams is briskly increasing, particularly among transnational organisations that find global virtual teams a natural way to address their needs for global reach. Much of the research into virtual teams has been concentrated at the micro-organisational level of the individual virtual worker. This study extends the body of research to the team level by using Hofstede|s (1998) GRIP model to examine culture and structuring on global virtual team performance. Specifically, Hofstede|s (1998) six components, along with virtual team duration and diversity, were found to influence virtual team budget variance, schedule variance, and the number of errors created by the team.

Keywords: virtual teams; virtual team performance; organisational culture; organisational structure; performance evaluation; global teams.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMDM.2004.005647

International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 2004 Vol.5 No.4, pp.348 - 372

Published online: 08 Nov 2004 *

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