Abstract
Teamwork has long been recognized of its fundamental importance to the operations and success of professional organizations. With the recent development in information and communication technology, the organization structure and operation frameworks for teamwork also evolve. The resultant emergence of “virtual team” has become a significant adaptation of teamwork in today’s digital global society. In this paper, we describe our research design for one of the first studies in the impacts of “virtual team” on several important factors of team dynamics and team leaderships, compared to those in traditional teamwork in physical proximity. We also present our preliminary results about the impacts of “virtual team” on team creativity and team member psychological safety.
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10 July 2020
The chapter 10 was inadvertently published with an error in the name of the fourth author as Andrew McCubbins. The first name of the author was corrected.
The chapter 36 was inadvertently published with an error in the affiliation of the second author as “ISEM Fashion Business School, University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain”. The name of the affiliation was corrected.
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Mai, B., Garcia, B., Xie, L., McCubbins, O., Seo, J. (2020). Teamwork in Virtual World - Impact of “Virtual Team” on Team Dynamic. In: Nah, FH., Siau, K. (eds) HCI in Business, Government and Organizations. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12204. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50341-3_10
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