Wired International Teams: Experiments in Strategic Decision-making by Multi- cultural Virtual Teams

This article describes a research project to investigate strategic decisionmaking by multi-cultural virtual teams. By 'virtual', we mean the team does not necessarily meet face-io-face and ihai ii depends 10 a large extend upon information technology to communicate. We include any technology that could be useful, from telephone to electronic mail to videoconferencing. Some preliminary experiments are described and a theoretical framework is proposed. The data collection instrument is discussed in detail. The project's objective is to come up with recommendations to managers for a choice of communication technologies depending on a team's composition in terms of members' culture.

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