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What is Virtual/Distributed Team

Chapter 75
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
A virtual/distributed team is a group of people who are geographically separated and who work across boundaries of space and time by utilizing computer driven technologies such as desktop video conferencing, collaborative software, and Internet/intranet systems. How these teams interact defines them as “virtual.”
Published in Chapter:
Exploring Environmental Factors in Virtual Teams
Teresa Torres-Coronas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch075
Abstract
In today’s competitive business world, global competition forces companies to continually seek ways of improving their products/services. The hypercompetitive business environment has been the catalysts for new organizational forms—the virtual organization and its smaller version the virtual team (Jarvenpaa & Ives, 1994). The advent of new communication technologies has given organizations an opportunity to bring together their distributed workforce. The creation of distributed teams makes possible the incorporation of a wide range of both individual knowledge and expertise into a collective body of knowledge needed to conduct effective group problem-solving activities.
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