Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements: Contemporary Issues and Implications

Virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering bring teams, product engineering, and processes into the 21st century through the use of e-collaboration technologies. These powerful tools accomplish work efficiently and effectively, whether communication takes place only through e-collaboration technologies or in combination with face-to-face interaction. Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements: Contemporary Issues and Implications addresses a range of e-collaboration topics, with emphasis on two particularly challenging ones: virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering. With contributing authors among the most accomplished e-collaboration, virtual team leadership, and collaborative engineering researchers in the world today, this book presents a blend of conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters creating a publication that will serve both academics and practitioners.

Ned Kock is professor and founding chair of the Division of International Business and Technology Studies at Texas A&M International University. He holds degrees in electronics engineering (BEE), computer science (MS), and management information systems (PhD). Ned has authored several books, and published in a number of journals including Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions, Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Information Technology & People, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of e-Collaboration, associate editor of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology, and associate editor for information systems of the journal IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.