Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2011
Abstract
Collaboration is an important activity in every organization because it fundamentally affects work processes and organizational outcomes. Diversity adds complexity to the mechanism of virtual teams because teams routinely operate virtually by spanning temporal, geographic, national, and cultural boundaries. One important way to decode such complexity is to understand gender differences and their impacts on virtual modes of collaboration. In this research, we examine gender differences and how they influence outcomes and attitudes on virtual collaboration in the context of team gender composition. Phase one of our study involved male-male dyads and female-female dyads that collaborated virtually in Second Life. The preliminary results show that impression management and team effort both have significant positive impacts on team outcomes (trust and satisfaction). Phase two of our study is on dyads of mixed gender.
Keywords
Virtual team, Collaboration, Gender, Dyad, Impression management, Trust, Satisfaction
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems
Research Areas
Data Science and Engineering; Information Systems and Management
Areas of Excellence
Digital transformation
Publication
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2011), Shanghai, China, 2011 December 4-7
First Page
1
Last Page
14
ISBN
9781618394729
Publisher
ICIS
City or Country
Atlanta, USA
Citation
SCHILLER, Shu; NAH, Fiona; MENNECKE, Brian; and SIAU, Keng.
Gender differences in virtual collaboration on a creative design task. (2011). Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2011), Shanghai, China, 2011 December 4-7. 1-14.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9413
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