Virtual Teams: A Comparative Analysis of Two Articles

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Article Analysis

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Contents
Executive Summary.................................................................................................................................3
Introduction..............................................................................................................................................4
Key Arguments of the Authors of both articles.......................................................................................4
Differences in the Arguments: compare the articles................................................................................5
Recommendations....................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................................7

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Executive Summary
A virtual team is basically described as a team whose existence spans operational, physical as
well as cultural distance. There are several advantages of adopting virtual teams. Apart from
the cost advantage of being capable of hiring expertise wherever it is obtainable, virtual
teams enable flexibility in balancing work and personal responsibilities (Lipnack and Stamps,
2011). It enables co-workers to co-operate with one another even in case if they aren’t located
in the same physical area. Empirically, making use of virtual teams could greatly enhance
staff outcome if managed effectually. Further, taking the above discussion into consideration
the above discussion into consideration this particular paper attempts to examine two articles
i.e. “Getting Virtual Teams Right” by Ferrazzi (2014) and “Working Across Boundaries:
Current and Future Perspectives on Global Virtual Teams” by Alfredo et. al. (2017).