---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Call for Papers on Managing Virtual Teams Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:27:10 -0800 From: "Richard E. Potter, Ph.D." rpotter@UIC.EDU To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
Call for Papers on Managing Virtual Teams Part of the Information Technology Track at the Southern Management Association Meeting New Orleans, Louisiana November 7-10, 2001
The growing need for teamwork and coordination, advances in telecommunication networks and software to support distributed group work (e.g., groupware), and increasingly dynamic and geographically decentralized business environments have resulted in the rapid proliferation of virtual teams within and across organizations. The members, often geographically and sometimes temporally distributed, are expected to bring together their differentiated perspectives and expertise to accomplish tasks, promote learning, or solve problems. Separated in time and space, team members must coordinate, communicate, and accomplish via groupware and computer-mediated communication (CMC) in place of face-to-face (FTF) communication. Supporting information technologies are increasingly mature, effective, and user-friendly, yet there is increasing evidence that virtual teams often do not perform up to expectations. Much recent research suggests that virtual team performance (both objective and subjective) may be largely a function of effective management of internal factors (e.g., processes and characteristics promoting team effectiveness) and organizational/contextual factors (differing incentives, cultural norms, career development, etc.).
This portion of the IT track focuses on issues related to the effective management of virtual teams. We seek papers from managerial, individual, organizational perspectives, as well as technological perspectives closely related to the general topic area. These include but are not limited to:
Configuring teams from an individual psychology perspective
Effectiveness training beyond technological literacy
Aligning organizational incentives across functional and cultural barriers
Project management techniques for virtual teams
Monitoring and identification of performance problems
Leadership in virtual teams
Virtual team membership and career development
Issues in multicultural virtual teams
Papers should be no more than 20 pages in length, double-spaced, in Word format. Papers may be submitted via hard copy to the address below, or electronically to the e-mail address below. The deadline for submissions is April 12, 2001.
Contact information:
Richard E. Potter Department of Information and Decision Sciences (M/C 294) College of Business Administration The University of Illinois at Chicago 601 South Morgan Street Chicago, IL 60607-7124 Phone (312) 996-5360 FAX (312) 413-0385 rpotter@uic.edu
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