Chapter 29. Collaboration in the Real World: Virtual Team Key Take-Away Principles That Work

Michael Beyerlein, Lori Bradley, Jill Nemiro, Susan Beyerlein

Organizational experiments continue as new forms of organizing bring us closer together around the globe. The Internet, and particularly electronic communication, has made possible new ways of organizing that continue to yield competitive advantage. These are experiments, and while many fail, others take hold, radically improving the human-technology mix and providing new capability for flexible, rapid response in the global marketplace.

The shift from individual task responsibility to teamwork is perhaps the most dramatic and burgeoning trend sweeping U.S. companies in the past two decades, and ...

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