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Geotemporally distributed project teams

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Norman, Francis
Pick, David
Dickie, Carolyn
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2012
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Norman, Francis G. and Pick, David and Dickie, Carolyn. 2012. Geotemporally distributed project teams, in Pillai,R., Ozbilgin,M., Harley, B. and Hartel, C. (ed), 26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Dec 5-7 2012. Perth, WA: ANZAM.
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26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing for Volatility and Instability
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26th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference 2012
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The aim of this paper is to enable a better understanding of interpersonal communications within virtual teams whose members are separated by long distances and/or time zones. To this end, the ideas of temporal diversity and temporal dissonance are combined to develop the concept of geotemporally distributed project teams. This complements existing theory by providing a way of understanding project teams, formed temporarily to perform a specific task, whose members are separated by time and/or distance, and communicate using computer mediated technology. This definition is expanded into a theoretical framework that opens up new lines of inquiry that has the potential to produce new perspectives on theory and practice in the areas of virtual work and group processes.