Mobile social media in inter-organizational projects: Aligning tool, task and team for virtual collaboration effectiveness

Zhang, Yali; Sun, Jun; Yang, Zhaojun; Wang, Ying

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.09.003

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“…It is our claim that ethnocentric definitions, theories, and operationalization of teams inhibit effective cross-cultural research on teams as explanatory variable for organizational performance. While no one disputes that most modern companies are headed by groups of managers, the nature of their co-operation, and social dynamics can be expected to vary across cultural contexts (Li and Cui, 2018 ; Zhang et al, 2018 ).…”

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Are Chinese Teams Like Western Teams? Indigenous Management Theory to Leapfrog Essentialist Team Myths

Klett

Arnulf

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Our study analyzes a gap in research on Chinese and Western management teams, based on a broad literature review. We claim that prevalent theoretical perspectives in the management team literature might be biased toward a Western-centric view of team dynamics. This obscures alternative ways of understanding top teams encompassing Chinese cultural traditions. We outline how an essentialist team conceptualization leads to a paradox consisting of three mutually contradicting myths. Myth 1 implies that Western groups of managers comply with theoretically “ideal” team processes and characteristics. Myth 2 derives from research literature on Chinese teams claiming that team features are assumed absent or weak in China due to cultural particularities. Paradoxically, the same research tradition constructs another third myth by reporting that Chinese teams successfully comply with the Western ideal team model. The three coexisting myths point to a theoretical confounding of contextual mediators in team processes. We discuss how indigenous Chinese leadership theory and Chinese systems of philosophy give Chinese teams access to distinct and effective team processes to reach high-performance outcomes. This paper aims to open the rich possibilities of Chinese management and team practices to the cross-cultural context, and on return to novel understanding of Western teams beyond traditional essentialist theory anchors.

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Section: Teams: What We Know and Three Mythsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are Chinese Teams Like Western Teams? Indigenous Management Theory to Leapfrog Essentialist Team Myths

Klett

Arnulf

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…As authors Laitinen and Valo (2018) state, information and communication technology is an indisputably important tool in the communication process and is an essential part of a virtual workgroup. Another important aspect of communication using information technology and various team, or task tools is that they shape the experience and operational aspects of virtual collaboration (Zhanga et al, 2018). Researchers Zhanga et al (2018) state that virtual team communication, such as team composition, task complexity, and tool functionality, determine the quality of projects and effectiveness of virtual collaboration.…”

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A Conceptual Management Model of Virtual Project Team in International Companies

Kukytė

2021

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Globalisation and technological advancement have an enormous impact on how businesses operate. Technological evolution, economic challenges, and different generations working in one workforce impact businesses to seek flexibility and adopt techniques that support virtual teamwork. In the modern international business environment increasing number of teams that work in virtual environments through project execution, leads to the need for theory and research on how successfully manage virtual project teams. In this paper the analysis of the scientific literature allowed to formulate the definition of a virtual project team, the analysis was able to show the management aspects, which are related to the features of the virtual project team, review of scientific literature also let to disclose the emerging problems faced by managers. These results were used to conceptualise the virtual project team management model in international companies.

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“…In the work of standard forms of virtual collaboration, among others, virtual teams, virtual learning-distance education, virtual meetings (Chen et al, 2004). A number of the most important studies have been conducted related to virtual collaboration, among others, led by Beavers et al (2017); Rennstich (2019); Zhang et al (2018); dan Srivastava and Chandra (2018). According to Rennstich (2019), an online collaborative creative process consists of all activities aimed at solving group problems that do not have standard solutions, which are mediated through web-based tools.…”

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“…The processes applied are often nonlinear and depend on synchronous and asynchronous multimodal communication methods, with a particular focus on visual tools. Virtual collaboration is an activity related to the extensive use of technology channels for team members to work together on completing project tasks (Zhang et al, 2018;Peters & Manz, 2007). Tortorella and Fettermann (2018) examined the relationship between lean production (LP) and the application of industry 4.0 in Brazilian manufacturing companies.…”

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2020

IJIET

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This article analyses the need for Industry 4.0 HR competencies. The study was conducted at several tertiary institutions in Medan, where the sample was determined by purposive random sampling. The variables used in this study include; a) sense-making, b) social intelligent, c) novel and adaptive thinking, d) cross-cultural competency, e) computational thinking, f) new-media literacy, g) transdisciplinary, h) design thinking, i) cognitive load management, j) virtual collaboration. Furthermore, the data were analyzed using the Confirmatory Factor Analysis approach. The output of this research is expected to provide input and strategies for universities in strengthening the quality of the fresh graduated HR output produced. The results of this study indicate that based on the results of Confirmatory Factor Analysis, the ten variables used have a positive relationship between variables and can be an estimator to see how fresh graduated human resources are ready to face industry 4.0.

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Mobile social media in inter-organizational projects: Aligning tool, task and team for virtual collaboration effectiveness

Cited by 65 publications

References 90 publications

Are Chinese Teams Like Western Teams? Indigenous Management Theory to Leapfrog Essentialist Team Myths

Are Chinese Teams Like Western Teams? Indigenous Management Theory to Leapfrog Essentialist Team Myths

A Conceptual Management Model of Virtual Project Team in International Companies

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