Overview
- Offers insights in using design science for virtual team management
- Provides a model developed from a study of eight virtual R&D project teams
- Helps practitioners and consultants with developing task-focused teams
Part of the book series: Future of Business and Finance (FBF)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Collaborating in virtual teams is a new reality in modern project management and work environments. Its emergence calls for an extensive analysis and re-alignment on the part of organizations, so as to help virtual teams maintain 'strategic momentum' – a concept that this book introduces. Strategic momentum represents perseverance with regard to pursuing a virtual team’s strategy; a 'flywheel' concept that drives the team members to concentrate on the project tasks until they have reached their shared goal.
The authors present a design science based model, together with an in-depth qualitative study involving eight virtual R&D project teams. In this model, strategic momentum is assessed in terms of empowerment, team task insight, and collective commitment. These three determinants can be promoted and sustained by various contextual factors and interventions on the part of the management. The authors also provide a wealth of practical tips to helppractitioners and consultants generate and sustain strategic momentum in their own contexts when working with virtual teams.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Raymond Opdenakker is academically affiliated with the Open University of The Netherlands, Eindhoven University of Technology (EIT), and the Master School of EIT Digital. He has authored, most often with Carin Cuypers, up to 80 articles and ten books on diverse business issues.
Carin Cuypers studied Law and Governance (business and public). She is also affiliated to the Open University of the Netherlands. She has authored up to 60 articles and eight books on diverse business issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Effective Virtual Project Teams
Book Subtitle: A Design Science Approach to Building a Strategic Momentum
Authors: Raymond Opdenakker, Carin Cuypers
Series Title: Future of Business and Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22228-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22227-7Published: 02 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22230-7Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22228-4Published: 23 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-2467
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Project Management, Human Resource Management, Business Information Systems