Changes in Virtual Team Collaboration With Modern Collaboration Tools

Viju Raghupathi*
Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Kopelman School of Business, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, New York, USA.
Periodicity:March - May'2016
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.5.2.5998

Abstract

The evolution of information technology that transcends time and space has enabled organizations to leverage virtual team collaboration. New collaborative technology, such as Google Apps/Google Docs, has disrupted traditional assumptions about collaboration. This empirical study on virtual teams examines how social and technical influences shape collaboration. It analyzes the performance and process of collaboration to detect changes, if any, brought about by modern collaboration tools, as well as the implications to organizations that deploy virtual teams. The findings show that new tools promote changes in the process of collaboration from a sequential to an iterative cycle of discussion and production. Practitioners can benefit from the insights of this study by evaluating the nature of teams and the support provided for their collaboration. In addition, collaborative technology has differential effects based on the social dynamics that occur within virtual teams.

Keywords

Virtual Team, Collaboration, Technology, Artifact, Production, Discussion, History, Memory.

How to Cite this Article?

Raghupathi. V (2016). Changes in Virtual Team Collaboration with Modern Collaboration Tools. i-manager’s Journal on Information Technology, 5(2), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.26634/jit.5.2.5998

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