The Disappointing Romance - A Story of Virtual Teams in the Workplace
(2018) BUSN49 20181Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- Since the mid 90s, globalisation has been an unstoppable trend in the world. To cope with the fast-changing international operations, virtual teams (VT) have been widely used. This study takes place in the context of IKEA in Sweden and is built on semi-constructed interviews and on- site observations. We have adopted the qualitative and abductive approach to interpret the underlying dynamics of VTs and the understanding from VT members upon this team setting. This study aims to analyse the idealistic view of VTs and discuss if VTs can be seen as teams. Our contribution is to provide a new perspective on VTs, in contrast to the mainstream literature under the functionalistic approach.
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- author
- So, Kai Hang LU and Gierok, Angelika LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- BUSN49 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- virtual teams, teams, IKEA, interpretative study, qualitative study, future work setting, non-instrumental study, grand expectation, critical review
- language
- English
- id
- 8947170
- date added to LUP
- 2018-06-19 13:49:45
- date last changed
- 2018-06-19 13:49:45
@misc{8947170, abstract = {{Since the mid 90s, globalisation has been an unstoppable trend in the world. To cope with the fast-changing international operations, virtual teams (VT) have been widely used. This study takes place in the context of IKEA in Sweden and is built on semi-constructed interviews and on- site observations. We have adopted the qualitative and abductive approach to interpret the underlying dynamics of VTs and the understanding from VT members upon this team setting. This study aims to analyse the idealistic view of VTs and discuss if VTs can be seen as teams. Our contribution is to provide a new perspective on VTs, in contrast to the mainstream literature under the functionalistic approach.}}, author = {{So, Kai Hang and Gierok, Angelika}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{The Disappointing Romance - A Story of Virtual Teams in the Workplace}}, year = {{2018}}, }