Learning to Manage Arbitrariness. European Management Journal. Information Technology and Self Managing Work Groups. The design of the organization, the team, and the job is the basis for building a successful virtual team. Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Communities Many claim that Computer-mediated communication systems encourage wider participation, greater candor, and an emphasis on merit over status.
Social hierarchies are dissolved and flatter, more egalitarian social organizations emerge.
But as with earlier technologies, the central problems of social relationships remain, although in new and possibly more challenging forms. This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. Using the evidence from two recent sets of studies, it highlights some of the barriers to effective virtual team working and demonstrates the critical importance of trust and social bonding to the functioning of such teams. Communication Patterns as Determinants of Organizational Identification in a Virtual Organization Recent advances in information technologies provide employees the freedom to work from any place and at any time. Such temporal and spatial dispersion, however, threatens the very meaning of firms.