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An SNA-Based Evaluation Framework for Virtual Teams

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Organizations are increasingly aware of the underlying forces of social networks and their impact on information and knowledge dissemination within virtual teams. However, assessing these networks is a challenge for team managers who need more complete toolkits in order to master team metrics. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is a descriptive, empirical research method for mapping and measuring relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations and other connected information/knowledge entities. In this article we establish a framework based on SNA to evaluate virtual teams.

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  1. Equipe TIME (Technologies d’Information et Management d’Entreprise), ENSIAS University of Souissi, Rabat, Morocco

    Lamia Ben Hiba & Mohammed Abdou Janati Idrissi

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

  2. Research Centre for Automatic Control, School of Engineering in Information Technology, University of Lorraine, CNRS, Campus scientifique, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France

    Hervé Panetto

  3. Department of Computer Science, Semantic Technology and Application Research Laboratory (STARLab), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Building G-10, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Robert Meersman

  4. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

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Ben Hiba, L., Janati Idrissi, M.A. (2012). An SNA-Based Evaluation Framework for Virtual Teams. In: Herrero, P., Panetto, H., Meersman, R., Dillon, T. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012 Workshops. OTM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7567. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33618-8_79

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