TY - GEN
T1 - Leadership and trust in partially distributed software development teams
AU - Plotnick, Linda
AU - Hiltz, Starr Roxanne
AU - Ocker, Rosalie
AU - Rutkowski, A. F.
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Partially distributed teams (PDTs) are common as organizations collaborate across distances. A PDT has at least one collocated subteam and at least two geographically dispersed subteams. We describe a large-scale experiment that examines student global PDTs working on software requirements for an emergency MIS; the teams comprised one U.S. subteam and one Dutch subteam. Leadership configuration was varied so that some teams had only a team leader; some had only subteam leaders; and some had both. However most teams chose to select subteam leaders, regardless of instructions. Trust has been found to be important for team functioning in traditional and virtual teams. This paper focuses on the experimental results related to leadership and trust in PDTs. Results indicate that while there is no evidence that trust varies by leadership configuration, the type of leader (subteam/team) matters and that trust is associated with leader effectiveness and perceptions of team and subteam performance.
AB - Partially distributed teams (PDTs) are common as organizations collaborate across distances. A PDT has at least one collocated subteam and at least two geographically dispersed subteams. We describe a large-scale experiment that examines student global PDTs working on software requirements for an emergency MIS; the teams comprised one U.S. subteam and one Dutch subteam. Leadership configuration was varied so that some teams had only a team leader; some had only subteam leaders; and some had both. However most teams chose to select subteam leaders, regardless of instructions. Trust has been found to be important for team functioning in traditional and virtual teams. This paper focuses on the experimental results related to leadership and trust in PDTs. Results indicate that while there is no evidence that trust varies by leadership configuration, the type of leader (subteam/team) matters and that trust is associated with leader effectiveness and perceptions of team and subteam performance.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870349461
SN - 9781605609539
T3 - 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008
SP - 2502
EP - 2508
BT - 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008
T2 - 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008
Y2 - 14 August 2008 through 17 August 2008
ER -