“Communicate Through the Roof”: A Case Study Analysis of the Communicative Rules and Resources of an Effective Global Virtual Team.
Challenges to effective collaboration are magnified when work teams are composed of geographically distributed members. Team members separated by time, distance, and culture often struggle with issues of trust, conflict, and potentially divisive subgroups. With global virtual teams becoming increasi...
| Publicado en: | Communication Quarterly Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 301 - 319 |
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Eastern Communication Association
Jul2013
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