TY - GEN
T1 - Leadership roles and communication issues in partially distributed emergency response software development teams
T2 - 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2008, HICSS
AU - Plotnick, Linda
AU - Ocker, Rosalie
AU - Hiltz, Starr Roxanne
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Emergencies often require inter-organizational and/or international coordination for effective planning and response. Therefore, planning and response teams are often configured as partially distributed teams. A partially distributed team (PDT) is a virtual team, in which some sub-groups are collocated, yet the subgroups are dispersed from each other, and communication between them is primarily by electronic media. We describe a project investigating different configurations of group and sub-group distribution and leadership in global PDTs engaged in tasks related to emergency response; in this paper we focus on results related to the leadership configuration (each of two subgroups in a team chose a local leader) and communication issues. Analysis of pilot data has helped us to articulate key leadership roles and suggests that significant in-group/out-group divides occurred. Implications for practitioners and future research plans are discussed.
AB - Emergencies often require inter-organizational and/or international coordination for effective planning and response. Therefore, planning and response teams are often configured as partially distributed teams. A partially distributed team (PDT) is a virtual team, in which some sub-groups are collocated, yet the subgroups are dispersed from each other, and communication between them is primarily by electronic media. We describe a project investigating different configurations of group and sub-group distribution and leadership in global PDTs engaged in tasks related to emergency response; in this paper we focus on results related to the leadership configuration (each of two subgroups in a team chose a local leader) and communication issues. Analysis of pilot data has helped us to articulate key leadership roles and suggests that significant in-group/out-group divides occurred. Implications for practitioners and future research plans are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2008.230
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2008.230
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51449104614
SN - 0769530753
SN - 9780769530758
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2008, HICSS
Y2 - 7 January 2008 through 10 January 2008
ER -