Article
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Abstract
`titrebVirtual work teams : a disappointment`/titreb“Virtual work teams” have arisen out of the need for organizations to respond to the challenges of flexibility, speed and a world marketplace. Thanks to the information and communication technologies, firms can obtain access to new markets and coordinate the work done by persons who are distant geographically from each other. But does this represent a new form of team work ? The results are presented from research carried out in a high-tech firm where new means of communication were being set up. Far from being a new sort of team work, the collective work done by persons not geographically present creates fragile organizational forms and does not constitute a solid basis for creating new teams based on cooperation and sharing. However these results have been gleaned from research conducted in a single firm...