Factors Impacting Effectiveness in Virtual Teams

Abstract

Advancement and progression are the key constituents of the success in global business. Virtual team and its members are now the virtue of the organizations that work across the countries. There is no doubt that virtual team's give a competitive advantage to the organization but simultaneously faces challenge in its working. Working in virtual team becomes complex as its members have language difficulties, time -and -distance challenges, absence of face-to-face contact, and cultural differences. The important factor that has been emerged and examined in the preceding studies which builds a virtual team is trust. Only depending on emails and telephones doesn't merely build the trust, especially when members are far apart and belong to totally different culture. Even though a large repository of literature is available on virtual teams and trust but still many of the questions are still left unanswered. The paper focus on identifying the factors those are important for the functioning of the virtual team. A set of 45 questions from the available literature were prepared and responses on likert scale are collected, analysed and summarized in the paper.

Virtual team experiences in an emerging economy: a qualitative study

“…Although researchers have conducted studies on Indian IT industry (Bhatnagar and Madon, 1997;Arora et al, 2001;Agrawal and Thite, 2006), only a few researchers (Holtbrügge and Schillo, 2008;Ahuja, 2010;Sudhakar et al, 2011;Holtbrügge et al, 2011;Bhat, Alavi and Ahuja, 2014;Bhat, Pande and Ahuja, 2014) have looked at one of the salient emerging trends in the Indian IT industry. Virtual teams or geographically distributed teamwork is one of them.…”