Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements: Contemporary Issues and Implications

Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements: Contemporary Issues and Implications

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Release Date: February, 2009|Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 396
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-110-0
ISBN13: 9781605661100|ISBN10: 1605661104|EISBN13: 9781605661117
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Description:

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.

Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements: Contemporary Issues and Implications 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, this book presents a blend of conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters creating a publication that will serve both academics and practitioners.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • 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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This book addresses a range of e-collaboration topics, with emphasis on two particularly challenging ones: virtual team leadership, and collaborative engineering.

– Ned Kock, Texas A&M International University, USA
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Ned Kock is a professor of Information Systems and the Director of the Collaborative for International Technology Studies, in the Sanchez School of Business, at Texas A&M International University. He holds degrees in electronics engineering (B.E.E.), computer science (M.S.), and management information systems (Ph.D.). Ned has authored and edited several books, including the bestselling Systems Analysis and Design Fundamentals: A Business Process Redesign Approach. Ned has published his research in a number of high-impact journals including Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions (various), Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Journal of the AIS, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of e-Collaboration, Associate Editor of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology, and Associate Editor for Information Systems of the journal IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. His research interests include e-collaboration, human evolution, action research, ethical and legal issues in technology research and management, and business process improvement.
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