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Integrated collaboration across distributed sites: the perils of process and the promise of practice
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posted on 2023-06-08, 18:14 authored by Gary C David, Donald Chand, Susan Newell, João Resende-SantosIn an era where a strategic command of global resources is becoming a requisite for success, firms are struggling to successfully unify their onshore and offshore sites. The literature on global virtual teams generally frames the impediments to coordination and collaboration based on divergent nationally based cultural attributes, language barriers, and the limitations of information and communication technologies. Drawing on world-systems theory, this paper argues for a decrease in the importance afforded to national boundaries and individual sites, and a re-orientation to the social dynamics across sites regardless of nationality. By changing the unit of analysis to the organization as a world system and focusing on emergent practices, this paper provides new insights regarding globally distributed collaborative work and identifies how to manage global relations to overcome structural impediments, to develop positive social relations, and achieve collaboration.
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Journal of Information TechnologyISSN
0268-3962Publisher
Palgrave MacmillanExternal DOI
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1Volume
23Page range
44-54Department affiliated with
- Business and Management Publications
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2014-09-09Usage metrics
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