Creating effective global teams

This thesis examines various aspects of high performance, globally dispersed teams through an in-depth case study. Aspects explored include: Understanding the leadership role in teams where members are physically dispersed, Learning how to build and maintain trust within teams that are not located together, Examining preparatory steps and management actions that enhance the success of dispersed teams, Understanding the relationship between social and technical team activities and Learning how technology, physical space and organizational issues influence the performance of distributed teams.

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2000

Authors dc:creator

• Malfè, Edoardo, 1960-
• Petree, Rusty W. 1966-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Janice A. Klein.

• Sloan School of Management.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9202

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/9202