Virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering advancements contemporary issues and implications /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Kock, Ned F., 1964-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Series: Advances in e-collaboration book.
• Subjects: Virtual work teams > Management.; Virtual reality in management.; Leadership.; Academic-industrial collaboration.; Research > International cooperation.; Intellectual cooperation.; Adoption and use of m-services; Agile IT outsourcing; Collaborative engineering advancements; Collaborative engineering for enhanced productivity; Collaborative work practices; Communication support systems; Comparative analysis of e-collaboration research funding; Cross-gender online collaborative discussions; E-communication behavior; Leaders in virtual groups; Metaphors for e-collaboration; Ontology-based integration of design and production; Organizational sense of community and listserv use; Organizational view of e-collaboration; Pattern theory in management of virtual projects; Performance in virtual teams; Supply chain collaborative technologies; Supporting facilitators in communities of practice; Trust development in virtual teams; User satisfaction with e-collaborative systems; Virtual team leadership; Web-based information technologies
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• Physical Description: electronic texts (xix, 376 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-367) and index.
• ISBN: 1605661112 (ebook); 9781605661117 (ebook)
• ISSN: 1935-2883
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

Virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering bring teams, product engineering, and processes into the 21st century through the use of e-collaboration technologies. These powerful tools accomplish work efficiently and effectively, whether communication takes place only through e-collaboration technologies or in combination with face-to-face interaction. This book addresses a range of e-collaboration topics, with emphasis on two particularly challenging ones: virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering. With contributing authors among the most accomplished e-collaboration, virtual team leadership, and collaborative engineering researchers in the world today, it presents a blend of conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters creating a publication that will serve both academics and practitioners.