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The Disappointing Romance - A Story of Virtual Teams in the Workplace

So, Kai Hang LU and Gierok, Angelika LU (2018) BUSN49 20181
Department 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
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
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  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}},
}