Team Size, Dispersion, and Social Loafing in Technology-Supported Teams: A Perspective on the Theory of Moral Disengagement

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Omar a. alnuaimi is assistant Professor in the College of business and Economics at the united arab Emirates university. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Walton College of business at the university of arkansas, Fayetteville. His research focuses on technology-enabled team collaboration, enterprise systems implementations, and electronic government. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and conference proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). liOnel P. rObert Jr. is assistant Professor of Information Systems at the university of arkansas, Fayetteville, Sam M. Walton College of business. His research focuses on team collaboration in virtual environments. Dr. robert was a bat doctoral fellow and kPMg scholar at Indiana university, where he completed his Ph.D. in Information Systems. Dr. robert's research has been published in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and Journal of Quality Management, as well as in conference proceedings, including the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), and academy of Management Conference (aOM). His book Social Capital and Knowledge Integration in Virtual Teams was published by VCM Verlag in 2007. likOebe m. maruPing is associate Professor of Information Systems in the College of business at the university of louisville. He was previously at the Sam M. Walton College of business at the university of arkansas. His research is primarily focused on the activities through which software development teams improve software project outcomes. the work he is currently doing in the area focuses on understanding how teams cope with uncertainty in software development projects. He also enjoys conducting research on virtual teams and the implementation of new technologies in organizations. His research has been published or is forthcoming in premier information systems, organizational behavior, and psychology journals, including MIS Quarterly,

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