Coordination of Virtual Teams: From Trust to Control

Nowadays, globalization and internationalization are strengthened by the development of the ICT (information and communication technologies). To face the competitions on markets, on suppliers and on customers, more and more companies choose to bet on the cooperation and\or on the network. Organizations thus extend beyond the organizational borders: and the control of those borders becomes crucial. How is made the coordination between partners? How takes place the coordination outside the organizational borders? And how is made coordination for remote teams? Since the initial work of Daft and Lewin (1993), evolution of organisation has been taking more and more space in the management literature. Globalisation and internationalisation, together with the development of information and communication technology, are boosting the size of markets, the numbers of customers and suppliers, and meanwhile the number of competitors. This forces companies to become more flexible, reactive and innovative. AbstrACt

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