A people-centric sensing approach to transforming cross-cultural practices in a global virtual team setting

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Abstract

Cultures are nowadays perceived as critical and value resources for organizations. To be competitive in the globalized economy, business operations must leverage cultural differences and avoid conflicts and fragmentation through understanding, cultural melding, appreciation, and adaptation. This paper presents our preliminary study focusing on transforming cross-cultural practices in a virtual team setting, aimed at improving the team's project development performance. In order to explore this innovative approach, we look into the following tasks in a stepwise manner: 1) defining a generic computational model of a virtual team; 2) identifying corresponding measures for the people-centric interactions during the operations of a virtual team; and 3) exploring methods to create transformative actions (e.g. strong virtual group components, better communication protocols and information sharing, cultural melding, leadership, etc.) to ensure operational practices in conformance with the best practices for continuous improvement on collaboration, people-centric sensing, and viability.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2010 WASE International Conference on Information Engineering, ICIE 2010
Pages366-371
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2 2010
Event2010 WASE International Conference on Information Engineering, ICIE 2010 - Beidaihe, Hebei, China
Duration: Aug 14 2010Aug 15 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2010 WASE International Conference on Information Engineering, ICIE 2010
Volume1

Other

Other2010 WASE International Conference on Information Engineering, ICIE 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeidaihe, Hebei
Period8/14/108/15/10

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

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