Virtual Team Management: A New Trend in Organizational Development in the 21st Century

Author: Jessica Lipnack (USA)
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: The book has three distinctive features. First is vividness, showcasing the causes, outcomes, and formation principles of virtual teams through numerous case studies. Second is breadth of knowledge, exploring the scale, activity patterns, and cooperative/competitive relationships of virtual teams from a wide perspective encompassing anthropology, sociology, psychology, and economics. Third is comprehensiveness, providing a thorough discussion of the three core elements of virtual teams—people, goals, and connections—as well as participation, workspace, lifecycle, and value.