Abstract
Virtual teams work together over geographical distances to achieve interdependent organizational goals. The use of virtual teams has increased rapidly, due to factors such as globalization, organizations’ need for rapid product development and innovation, distributive expertise of employees, and improved networking and collaboration technologies that support e-collaboration (Kozlowski & Bell, 2003; Mathieu, Maynard, Rapp, & Gilson, 2008). With the proliferation of the use of virtual teams, the question has arisen regarding how to best manage virtual teams. In spite of advantages of virtual teams, scholars have argued that team management and leadership is more difficult in virtual teams than in co-located teams. Geographic dispersion in virtual teams results in lower co-presence of leaders and team members and virtual team leaders having less ability to monitor their teams, less influence and information about the team’s situation and team processes and team dynamics, thus hindering the management of the team in general. Because of these challenges, researchers have suggested that leadership in virtual teams should be distributed among team members and performed through shared leadership. Currently, however, little knowledge exists regarding what important antecedents, mediators and moderators and outcomes of shared leadership in virtual teams are. In drawing from a contingency framework approach, the papers in this symposium discuss critical predictors, moderators and processes that can positively influence the emergence of shared leadership, and ultimately impact virtual team effectiveness and performance. The papers provide both unique and important extensions to existing research knowledge and theory as well as needed guidance to managers regarding the development of shared leadership in virtual teams Team Member Personality Composition as Antecedents of Shared Leadership in Virtual Teams Presenter: Julia E. Hoch; California State U., Northridge Shared Leadership: Investigating the Contingency Factors Influencing Virtual Team Effectiveness Presenter: Julia Eisenberg; Pace U. Presenter: Jennifer Gibbs; Rutgers U. Presenter: Niclas Erhardt; U. of Maine
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