Virtual Collaborative Groups: Two Case Studies of Group Development and Emergent Leadership - Softcover

Sudweeks, Fay

 
9783639034233: Virtual Collaborative Groups: Two Case Studies of Group Development and Emergent Leadership
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3639034236 ISBN 13: 9783639034233
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Synopsis

Computer-mediated collaboration is an important feature of modern organizational and educational settings but it is still compared unfavourably with traditional collaboration because non-verbal and paralinguistic cues are minimal. This book analyzes how virtual collaborative groups develop and how leaders emerge in asynchronous and synchronous computer-mediated environments using cognitive and affective dimensions of communication activity. A multi-level methodology (Complementary Explorative Data Analysis) is developed to enable quantitative and qualitative analyses of communication data sets from two different case studies. The results indicate that virtual collaborative groups in organizations and education institutions are highly adaptive to the task to be completed, and the medium in which they collaborate. The analyses have practical implications for managers of virtual teams and educators in e-learning.

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Publisher
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3639034236
ISBN 13 
9783639034233
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
400