Virtual Collaboration with Mobile Social Media in Multiple-Organization Projects

Abstract

This study investigates the use of mobile social media as emerging collaboration tools by virtual teams. Based on the construal level theory, it develops a research model hypothesizes that collaboration tool effectiveness influence contextual performance and task performance through the mediation of procedure agreeability. In addition, geographic dispersion, team size and project duration serve as moderators as they reflect virtual collaboration complexity. Empirical findings support most hypothesized relationships. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

The Relevance of Duration in Stakeholder Collaboration to Prevent Illegal Gold Mining in Nigeria

“…Convergence duration was described by med2: "one month, two months, three months, you will do these [media] programmes, those programmes will not be enough to bring an impact on what we are trying to achieve". This offers contrary evidence to the findings of a previous study, which found that a project collaboration's long duration positively impacted the performance of stakeholders who used the social media tool WeChat in China (Yang et al, 2018).…”

“…Two, igm prevention is demanding in nature. Previous findings reported that long-term collaboration occurs among distant stakeholders and that the negative impact of geographic dispersion has been reduced by using a technology-enabled tool (Righetto et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2018). On the other hand, an agreement on a suitable time for meetings was challenging in collaborations, especially at the start-up when collaboration formats were continuously reviewed (Ryan 2008).…”

“…The literature on anti-environment behaviour prevention has debated the relative importance of the duration of these collaborations (Righetto et al, 2019). While few studies have attempted to determine the nature of media and other stakeholders' duration in collaboration (Çetin, 2006;Ryan, 2008;White et al, 2015;Yang et al 2018), a study has yet to offer side-by-side qualitative as well as quantitative evidence of the implications of a shortened collaboration duration on the continuation of igm in Nigeria.…”

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