“…In the VT context, temporary VTs appear to have a typically short and predefined lifespan (Panteli & Davison, 2005;Saunders & Ahuja, 2006). Such short VT lifecycle is not without challenges; it may have an adverse effect on the quality of relationships and interactions among team members, especially on the development of trust and team cohesion (Crisp & Jarvenpaa, 2013;Gibbs, Sivunen, & Boyraz, 2017); and also on tea s a ilit to innovate and meet their goals, by challenging team climate and enhancing outcome uncertainty (Halbesleben, Novicevic, Harvey, & Buckley, 2003;Nisula & Kianto, 2016). As innovation efforts nowadays are increasingly The Role of Temporal Coordination for the Fuzzy Front-End of Innovation in Virtual Teams conducted in temporary (e.g.…”