CHAPTER 1
Overview of the Recent Literature on Distributed Teams
In this collaborative project with a team of Australian engineers, I think we learned to better organize ourselves as a team. In the end, our approach was much more structured and effective than if we had functioned as a local team only.
Chief Engineer for an innovative technology project
Researchers from across the world and in a variety of disciplines have become interested in describing and understanding the phenomenon of distributed projects and teams. In this chapter, we review some of the most relevant studies that have appeared recently in the management literature. We limit the discussion to a small but representative portion of the current literature rather than presenting ...
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