Annotated Bibliograhy Assignment 2022

ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAHY

Introduction
The modern business organisations are characterised by the complex business
practices, global business practices, dispersed employees and the excessive use of the
information and communication technologies. One of the trends that have taken over the
business operations of the multinational entities having various business locations is the
virtual teams. The following work is aimed at identification and location ten literary sources
to study the contemporary issue of “Implementation of the virtual teams in organisations.”

Source 1
Gilson, L. L., Maynard, M. T., Young, N. C. J., Vartiainen, M. & Hakonen, M. (2015).
Virtual teams research: 10 years, 10 themes, and 10 opportunities, Journal of
Management, 41(5), 1313-1337
The authors Gilson and Maynard are renowned for the study in the field of emergence
of the virtual teams in the business environment, with first study conducted more than around
a decade ago. The above work is in the form of a review of the literature over the ten years to
comprehensively understand the changes and the issues in the virtual teams in today’s
business environment. The article is an important source of information with the utilisation of
450 articles from 200 different journals. The research has led to the identification of the ten
themes which govern the ten important areas that are identified as the fruitful research
opportunities. Some of the themes identified are the team inputs, leadership, globalisation,
mediator and moderators, trust, and the future ways. The source is useful in context of
understanding of the future implications in terms of the member mobility, technology,
generational impacts and others. Thus, the source provides a wide literature for the beginner
readers to understand the concept of the virtual teams.
Source 2
Haines, R. (2014). Group development in virtual teams: An experimental re-
examination,’ Computers in Human Behavior, 39, 213-222
The above work is an important source of information as the article is focussed on
building relationships in an entity with the use of the virtual teams. The article made use of
the study of the existing literature on the virtual teams and the organisational concepts such
as team building, communication, motivation and others. In addition to the above, an
experiment has been conducted in the study, which differentiates it from the other sources of
the study. The experiment involved the sharing of information within a same virtual team for
ten times to study the impact of the age of the virtual team on the efficiency of the
information sharing. The study led to the observation that there is an efficient information
sharing between the longer lived virtual teams as compared to the the one-shot and ad hoc
virtual teams. Thus, one of the chief considerations of the implementation and working of the
virtual teams is the trust among the team members.