Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements; Contemporary Issues and Implications

Virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering bring teams, product engineering, and processes into the 21st century through the use of e-collaboration technologies. These powerful tools accomplish work efficiently and effectively, whether communication takes place only through e-collaboration technologies or in combination with face-to-face interaction. "Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements: Contemporary Issues and Implications" addresses a range of e-collaboration topics, with emphasis on two particularly challenging ones: virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering. With contributing authors among the most accomplished e-collaboration, virtual team leadership, and collaborative engineering researchers in the world today, this book presents a blend of conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters creating a publication that will serve both academics and practitioners. Contents: Adoption and use of m-services; Agile IT outsourcing; Collaborative engineering advancements; Collaborative engineering for enhanced productivity; Collaborative work practices; Communication support systems; Comparative analysis of e-collaboration research funding; Cross-gender online collaborative discussions; E-communication behavior; Leaders in virtual groups; Metaphors for e-collaboration; Ontology-based competence model for collaborative design; Ontology-based integration of design and production; Organizational sense of community and listserv use; Organizational view of e-collaboration; Pattern theory in management of virtual projects; Performance in virtual teams; Supply chain collaborative technologies; Supporting facilitators in communities of practice; Trust development in virtual teams; User satisfaction with e-collaborative systems; Virtual team leadership; Web-based information technologies".