Introduction to the Minitrack on Emerging Issues in Distributed Group Decision-Making: Opportunities and Challenges

This mini track addresses emerging issues, such as diversity, culture, adaptability, mobility and agility related to teams in distributed group decisionmaking, as well as the underlying theories of group dynamics, coordination, and communications in both swift and ad-hoc groups. The papers submitted specifically examined the emerging issues related to team configuration, diversity and performance in a distributed environment.