Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 202 g
Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 202 g
ISBN: 978-3-95404-720-8
Verlag: Cuvillier
In contrast to co-located teams, virtual teams hardly meet in person and therefore have to fully rely on information technology (Robert et al. 2009). Technology, however, severely limits the means of communication and thus tremendously changes the way people work together (Powell et al. 2004). Consequently, a plethora of studies have sought to investigate why collaboration in virtual teams is much more difficult than in co-located settings (Hinds and Bailey 2003; Powell et al. 2004). A fundamental problem of virtual collaboration is that team workers lack awareness about their team members’ activities (Kraut et al. 2002). According to Dourish and Bellotti (1992, p. 107), awareness denotes the “… understanding of the activities of others,which provides a context of [ones] own activity”. In co-located teams, peo ple learn about each other’s activities by simply observing their team members carrying out a task, speaking about their activities in scheduled meetings as well as during chance encounters in the office space. In virtual teams, however, people cannot observe their colleagues and rarely meet in person (Kraut et al. 2002).