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.
Author(s): Ned Kock
Edition: 1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 396
Title......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 19
Acknowledgment......Page 20
Vive la Différence: Communicating Across Cultural Boundaries in Cross-Gender Online Collaborative Discussions......Page 22
Toward an Organizational View of E-Collaboration......Page 34
The Drivers for the Adoption and Use of M-Services: A Consumer Perspective......Page 49
A Comparative Analysis of E-Collaboration Research Funding in the European Union and the United States......Page 61
Perceived Behaviors of Emergent and Assigned Leaders in Virtual Groups......Page 71
Supporting Facilitators in Communities of Practice via Design and Technology......Page 86
Virtual Team Leadership: Perspectives from the Field......Page 105
Web-Based Template-Driven Communication Support Systems: Using Shadow netWorkspace to Support Trust Development in Virtual Teams......Page 126
Exploring the Virtual Team Leaders' Perspectives: Efficient Work Roles and Leadership Functions......Page 142
Leadership and Performance in Virtual Teams: Exploring Brokerage in Electronic Communication......Page 158
Intelligent Agents for Supporting Supply Chain Collaborative Technologies......Page 175
Collaborative Engineering for Enhanced Producibility by Ontology-Based Integration of Design and Production......Page 187
An Ontology-Based Competence Model for Collaborative Design......Page 209
Functional Product Development Challenges Collaborative Work Practices......Page 224
Managing Operational Business Processes with Web-Based Information Technologies......Page 238
Vision, Trends, Gaps and a Broad Roadmap for Future Engineering......Page 247
The Ape that Used E-Mail: An Evolutionary Perspective on E-Communication Behavior......Page 263
Metaphors for E-Collaboration: Nonprofit Theatre Web Presence......Page 276
User Satisfaction with E-Collaborative Systems......Page 292
Organizational Sense of Community and Listserv Use: Examining the Roles of Knowledge and Face-to-Face Interaction......Page 303
Agile IT Outsourcing......Page 320
Applying Pattern Theory in the Effective Management of Virtual Projects......Page 336
Compilation of References......Page 356
About the Contributors......Page 389
Index......Page 394
