Waiting for ‘Superman’: A Review and Commentary

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Tony Durr

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10.58809/ODUA3518

Abstract

With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations [2]. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness [3-4]. Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing [5] and improve organizational performance [6]. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions. Many R&D organizations and teams currently use a specialized knowledge portal for research collaboration and knowledge management [7]. Hence, the move towards a virtual world is becoming ever more relevant to industry and education as organizations outsource activities across national geographic boundaries [8].

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Durr, Tony (2011) "Waiting for ‘Superman’: A Review and Commentary," Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012): Vol. 9: Iss. 4, Article 20.
DOI: 10.58809/ODUA3518
Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/alj/vol9/iss4/20