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In many successful companies, teams work together virtually instead of face to face. These teams are supported by technology, allowing effective virtual teamwork across the globe. Some companies are even successful in business without any offices at all. The ways of working in virtual teams appear to be ingrained in these companies’ cultures. The paper at hand performs a case study analysis synthesizing individual patterns found in companies that are built on virtual teamwork to a generic organizational pattern. This generic pattern can be deployed to support changes due to virtuality and digitalization in more traditional companies. The case study analysis provides a holistic view on virtual teamwork and contributes to research on this evolution.
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Großer, B., Baumöl, U. (2017). Organizational Structures for an Implementation of Virtual Teamwork - A Case Study Analysis. In: Johansson, B., Møller, C., Chaudhuri, A., Sudzina, F. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64930-6_20
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