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" Cross Functional (Global) Team Building Is your organization challenged with building a global team for a critical project? Are you seeking to align cross-functional teams in a time-challenged M&A or restructuring environment? If you're faced with one or both of these scenarios, you know the challenges of designing and implementing enterprise-level global initiatives in today's economic downturn. And, more recently, global events such as the unrest in the Middle East have added to the hurdles senior HR executives must overcome in managing global teams. Now more than ever, cross-functional global projects in business and technology are especially in need of a nuanced and custom-tailored approach, as managing cross-functional and multicultural teams in disparate locations presents unique business and social challenges. Cross-Functional & Multicultural Teams A cross-functional team is a group of employees from different functions within an organization-such as human resources, information technology, marketing and finance-who are all focusing on a specific objective and have the responsibility to work as a team to achieve shared goals. Multicultural teams, on the other hand, are made up of people from different social and professional cultures, who work together toward a common goal. Managing cross-functional teams is a complex endeavor by itself, but it becomes even more challenging when the multicultural component is added to the mix. In fact, in today's global and knowledge-oriented environment, the alignment of human resources is just as important as raw materials, production and marketing, as a team that cannot work together will not produce much in terms of results. What complicates the situation is that in today's dynamic and volatile business environment, senior HR executives require a keen understanding of relevant factors impacting the formation and utilization of global teams. However, with cooperative, involved management from senior HR ex

"Academic Leadership Journal 9, 3 (2011) 1-7 Virtual Teams and Management Challenges Nader Ale Ebrahim 1, Shamsuddin Ahmed 1, Zahari Taha 2 (2011) Introduction: Collaboration is becoming increasingly important in creating the knowledge that makes business more competitive. Virtual teams are growing in popularity [1] and many organizations have responded to their dynamic environments by introducing virtual teams. Additionally, the rapid development of new communication technologies such as the Internet has accelerated this trend so that today, most of the larger organization employs virtual teams to some degree [2]. A growing number of flexible and adaptable organizations have explored the virtual environment as one means of achieving increased responsiveness [3]. Howells et al. [4] state that the shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working has become more commonplace. Based on conventional information technologies and Internet-based platforms virtual environments may be used to sustain companies' progress through virtual interaction and communication. 1 : University of Malaya (UM) Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya 2 : Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering and Management Technology, University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) Education Domaine : Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Gestion et management Mots Clés : Virtual R&D teams - Virtual Team - Management Challenge - Collaboration - ICT application Liste des fichiers attachés à ce document : PDF Academic_Leadership_Journal_-.Management_Challengespdf.pdf(445.8 KB) hal-00690027, version 1 http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00690027 oai:hal.archives-ouvertes.fr:hal-00690027 Contributeur : Nader Ale Ebrahim Soumis le : Vendredi 20 Avril 2012, 21:45:32 Dernière modification le : Mardi 24 Avril 2012, 11:01:48"

"Effective Virtual Teams for New Product Development Contents: Author info Abstract Bibliographic info Download info Related research References Citations Lists Statistics Corrections Author Info Nader Ale Ebrahim (al_e_ebrahim@yahoo.com) (UM - University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya) Shamsuddin Ahmed (UM - University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya) Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid (UM - University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya) Zahari Taha (UMP - Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering and Management Technology, University Malaysia Pahang - Education) Registered author(s): Abstract At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey. From literature review, the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams are identified and these factors are modified using a field survey. The relationship between knowledge workers (people), process and technology in virtual teams is explored in this study. The results of the study suggest that technology and process are tightly correlated and need to be considered early in virtual teams. The use of software as a service, web solution, report generator and tracking system should be incorporated for effectiveness virtual teams. Download Info If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be l

"Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs Nader Ale Ebrahim, Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya Shamsuddin Ahmed Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid Zahari Taha M. A. Wazed Abstract This paper presents the results of empirical research conducted during March to September 2009. The study focused on the influence of virtual research and development (R&D) teams within Malaysian manufacturing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The specific objective of the study is better understanding of the application of collaborative technologies in business, to find the effective factors to assist SMEs to remain competitive in the future. The paper stresses to find an answer for a question "Is there any relationship between company size, Internet connection facility and virtuality?". The survey data shows SMEs are now technologically capable of performing the virtual collaborative team, but the infrastructure usage is less. SMEs now have the necessary technology to begin the implementation process of collaboration tools to reduce research and development (R&D) time, costs and increase productivity. So, the manager of R&D should take the potentials of virtual teams into account. Suggested Citation ALE EBRAHIM, N., AHMED, S., ABDUL RASHID, S. H., TAHA, Z. & WAZED, M. A. 2012. Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs. Advanced Materials Research, 433-440, 1653-1659. Download this Article Download Find in your library Forward to a colleague Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on google More Sharing Services "

"Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Available online 25 August 2012 In Press, Corrected Proof - Note to users Cover image Knowledge kanban system for virtual research and development Chia Jou Lina, Corresponding author contact information, E-mail the corresponding author, F. Frank Chenb, Yuh Min Chena a Institute of Manufacturing Information and Systems, National Cheng Kung University, 1, Ta-Sheuh Road, 701 Tainan, Taiwan b Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249-0670, USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rcim.2012.04.020, How to Cite or Link Using DOI Permissions & Reprints Abstract Virtual research and development (R&D) is inevitable to reduce the product life cycle. Enterprises tend to rely on their foreign partners for supporting technology and knowledge acquisition to conduct and improve firms' product development with low R&D risk. R&D is a highly creative and knowledge-intensive activity, Therefore, efficient knowledge flow, which transmits the right knowledge to the right people at the right time, is key to improving efficiency of the R&D process. Kanban supports visual production control using the card of providing information to regulate the flow of inventory and materials. To enhance the knowledge flow efficiency in the virtual R&D process, this study proposes a knowledge kanban system utilizing the philosophy of kanban management and knowledge engineering techniques. Employees can quickly, easily, and exactly determine what knowledge they need to learn, create, share, and maintain by the knowledge kanban system. This system assists employees to do the right thing, to reduce the cycle time of R&D processes, and to enhance the reuse of knowledge, to create new knowledge. To achieve this objective, this study first proposes a knowledge flow model in virtual R&D based on the analysis res

"1. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim; Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari (2011): The effectiveness of virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: experiences of Malaysian SMEs. Published in: Industrial Engineering and Management Systems , Vol. 10, No. 2 (June 2011): pp. 109-114. 2. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari (2010): Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs. Published in: Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Technologies (MIMT 2011), Singapore. , Vol. 2, (27. February 2011): V2-114. 3. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari (2010): Virtual R&D teams and SMEs growth: A comparative study between Iranian and Malaysian SMEs. Published in: African Journal of Business Management , Vol. 4, No. 11 (04. September 2010): pp. 2368-2379. 4. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari (2010): The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs. Published in: In: The 11th Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Conference (APIEMS 2010), Melaka, Malaysia. (09. December 2010): pp. 1-6. 5. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari (2010): Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration. Published in: In: 2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education (ICEED 2010), 8th - 9th December Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (08. December 2010): pp. 7-9. 6. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari (2010): SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review. Published in: International Journal of the Physical Sciences , Vol. 5, No. 7 (July 2010): pp. 916-930. 7. Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari (2010): Virtual Teams: A New Opportunity to Develop a

"Coaching wielokulturowych zespołów wirtualnych Szczegóły Bożena Wujec Coaching zespołów wirtualnych, które dodatkowo są wielokulturowe jest złożonym rodzajem interwencji. Zawiera w sobie aspekty związane z nie tylko z funkcjonowaniem indywidualnych osób i grup, lecz także zespołów międzynarodowych i wielokulturowych w wyjątkowym, wirtualnym środowisku pracy. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie tematyki dotyczącej zespołów wirtualnych a także specyfiki interwencji coachingowej podejmowanej w celu zwiększenia ich efektywności. Na początku zostanie przedstawiona charakterystyka zespołu wirtualnego, jako nowego trendu w rozwoju pracy zespołowej oraz jego odmiana - wirtualny zespół wielokulturowy. Potem zostaną przedstawione korzyści wynikające z pracy takiego zespołu oraz wyzwania przed którymi stoi, co jest punktem wyjścia do zastosowania interwencji coachingowej. Następnie, po omówieniu rodzajów coachingu stosowanego w obszarze zespołów wirtualnych zostanie przedstawiony przykład pełnej takiej interwencji na tle praw rządzących zespołem, tj. dynamiki grupowej i układu hierarchicznego w organizacji. Organizacje pierwszej dekady XXI wieku działające w niezwykle dynamicznym, zmiennym i złożonym środowisku stają obecnie przed szeregiem ważnych wyzwań. Po pierwsze, wszelka działalność ekonomiczna zmierza w kierunku globalizacji (Acs, Preston 1997). Po drugie, ograniczoność zasobów planety oraz kwestie ekologiczne powodują konieczność zupełnie nowych, innowacyjnych rozwiązań technologicznych. Po trzecie, niezwykle wysoka globalna konkurencyjność wymaga szybkich działań biznesowych i skrócenia czasu dotarcia produktu na rynek. Nowe wyzwania kreują potrzebę nowych rozwiązań w sferze badań i rozwoju, technologii produkcji, organizacji oraz nowoczesnych metod pracy i logistyki. Jest to niezwykłe zadanie biorąc pod uwagę fakt, że ściśle współpracujące ze sobą działy są często o

"Authors Ivo Blohm1, Ulrich Bretschneider2, Jan Marco Leimeister3, Helmut Krcmar4 1Chair for Information Systems (I17), Technische Universitat Munchen, Boltzmann Str. 3, 85748 Garching b. Munchen, Germany. 2Chair for Information Systems (I17), Technische Universitat Munchen, Boltzmann Str. 3, 85748 Garching b. Munchen, Germany. 3Chair for Information Systems (I17), Universitat Kassel, Nora-Platiel-Strasse 4, 34127 Kassel, Germany. 4Chair for Information Systems (I17), Technische Universitat Munchen, Boltzmann Str. 3, 85748 Garching b. Munchen, Germany Abstract Open innovation research shows that idea competitions are a promising approach for integrating customers and that most innovations are a result of intensive collaboration (Franke and Shah, 2003; Gasco-Hernandez and Torres-Coronas, 2004; Nemiro, 2001; Sawhney et al., 2005). Thus, fostering collaboration among idea contributors might be a fruitful approach for unleashing the customers' entire creative potential and making idea competitions even more successful. This paper reports on a field study in which idea contributors could collaborate in an IT-based idea competition using the wiki technology. We tested whether user collaboration positively influences the quality of the submissions applying an in-depth analysis of idea quality. Our results show that user collaboration enhances idea quality and that inducing user collaboration is a viable design element for making idea competitions more effective. This contributes to a more successful design, implementation and operation of idea competitions, as well as to better outcomes. The article concludes with a discussion of customer groups collaborating in idea competitions (extrinsically and intrinsically motivated customers). Keywords idea competitions, collaboration, open innovation, crowdsourcing, toolkits, software development, user innovation, new product development, R&, D, research and development, creative potential, creativity, wiki technology, idea quali

"EarlyCite Article MACROECONOMIC FACTORS DETERMINING FDI IMPACT ON PAKISTAN'S GROWTH Document Information:Title: MACROECONOMIC FACTORS DETERMINING FDI IMPACT ON PAKISTAN'S GROWTH Author(s): Khalid Zaman, (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology), Iqtidar Ali Shah, (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology), Muhammad Mushtaq Khan, (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology), Mehboob Ahmad, (Bahria University) Citation: Khalid Zaman, Iqtidar Ali Shah, Muhammad Mushtaq Khan, Mehboob Ahmad, (2012) "MACROECONOMIC FACTORS DETERMINING FDI IMPACT ON PAKISTAN'S GROWTH", South Asian Journal of Global Business Research, Vol. 1 Iss: 1 Article type: Research paper Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited Abstract: Purpose - The objective of the study is to identify major macroeconomic factors that enhance FDI for Pakistan through the cointegration and error correction model over a 28-year time period, i.e. between 1980 and 2008. Design/methodology/approach - The study employed the Johansen cointegration technique to estimate the long-run relationship between the variables, while an error correction model was used to determine the short-run dynamics of the system. Findings - Finding suggests that FDI has had a significant positive impact on Pakistan's economic growth in the long-run. For example, trade liberalization and their interactive terms have a positive effect in the short-run while a negative effect is observed in the long-run upon economic growth of Pakistan. The results indicate that due to a low quality of human capital in Pakistan; the direct effect of FDI on economic growth becomes negative. Research limitations/implications - We limited our study to a few variables, including human capital, trade openness, government size, population, consumer price index in order to manage robust data analysis. Practical / Policy Implications: We find that for FDI to be a significant contributor to economic growth in Pakistan, government must focus upon improving

"Virtual teams definition edit delete Thursday, April 14, 2011 Virtual teams Developments in communications technologies have seen the emergence of the virtual work team. A virtual team is a group of people who work interdependently and with shared purpose across space, time, and organisation boundaries using technology to communicate and collaborate. Virtual team members can be located across a country or across the world, rarely meet face-to-face, and include members from different cultures.[1] Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmed, S. & Taha, Z. in their recent (2009) literature review paper, added two key issues to definition of a virtual team "as small temporary groups of geographically, organizationally and/ or time dispersed knowledge workers who coordinate their work predominantly with electronic information and communication technologies in order to accomplish one or more organization tasks".[2] Many virtual teams are cross-functional and emphasis solving customer problems or generating new work processes. The United States Labour Department reported that in 2001, 19 million people worked from home online or from another location, and that by the end of 2002, over 100 million people world-wide would be working outside traditional offices.[3] 1. Kimble et al. (2000) Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice (Department of Management Science Research Paper Series, 00/9), University of Strathclyde, Strathclyde, UK, 2000. 2. Ale Ebrahim, N.; Ahmed, S.; Taha, Z. (December 2009). "Virtual R & D teams in small and medium enterprises: A literature review" . Scientific Research and Essay 4 (13): 1575-1590. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1530904 3. Pearlson & Sounders, 2001"

"Productivity, Remote Teams At Time Doctor, we work with staff members in more than nine different countries - as you can imagine, team collaboration has a range of unique challenges. There are a number of tools that we use in our company, most of them are free. ((With over 10 years of experience under our belts, we've tried the best and worst of many collaborative tools - we thought it would be valuable to share the tools we we use and what exactly we use them for; Google Docs Google docs - provides free online spreadsheets and document management with a Gmail/Google Account. The spreadsheet feature is particularly useful when you need to have multiple people working on the same spreadsheet at the same time (something you can't do with Dropbox). It doesn't have all of the features of Excel, but it's very useful for collaborative editing of documents (including text files). You can use Google Docs effectively as a company "wiki" where anyone in the company is able to add any information to the document. How we use Google Docs: Domain management, financial reports, feature suggestion lists, payroll coverage, performance appraisals, ranking reports, login information, directory lists and online resources. Jing Project Jing Project - This is a fantastic free collaboration tool (although you need to pay for some features). It allows you to take a screen or video capture of anything on your desktop. Screen captures can be easily annotated, and you can record your voice along with any video to easily explain something. You can upload the capture to Screencast.com and they'll turn it into a simple link where anyone can view the capture. This is perfect for communicating with designers for example when you wish to write comments and explain to a designer what needs to be changed. Here is an example: http://screencast.com/t/GuTz0hjDteI How we use Jing: communicating with designers and developers, creating training and instructional vide

" članak: 1 od 1 Computer Science and Information Systems / ComSIS 2011, vol. 8, br. 1, str. 1-26 jezik rada: engleski članak doi:10.2298/CSIS100127033R VPN solutions and network monitoring to support virtual teams work in virtual enterprises (naslov ne postoji na srpskom) Roşu Marius Sebastiana, Drăgoi Georgeb aSpecial Telecommunications Service, Information Technology Department, Bucharest, Romania bPolytechnic University of Bucharest, PREMINV Research Center, Bucharest, Romania e-adresa: sebastianrosu@stsnet.ro, gdragoi@mix.mmi.pub.ro Sažetak (ne postoji na srpskom) In order to be competitive enterprises continuously implement ICT strategies & architectures to improve manufacture, research, products quality, sales, services and costs control. All large enterprises have a local area network, a virtual private network, an Intranet and Internet, servers and workstations for operations, administration and management working together for the same objective: profits. The virtual enterprise and the virtual team's concepts are discussed in this article. This work analyzes the network architecture for geographically dispersed enterprises (seen as virtual enterprises) as support for virtual project development by virtual teams work. In addition, the paper presents an enterprise networks monitoring solution using open source software (OSS). Ključne reči virtual enterprise; virtual team; enterprise network; virtual network; network management Reference *** (2009) OSPF design guide 2008-2009. Cisco Systems Inc, www.cisco.com Dec. 2009 CrossRefKoBSON Akgun, A., Lynn, G., Yilmaz, C. (2006) Learning process in new product development teams and effects on product success: A socio-cognitive perspective. Industrial Marketing Management, 35(2): 210-224 Ale, E.N., Ahmed, S., Taha, Z. (2009) Innovation and R&D activities in virtual team. European Journal of Scientific Research, vol. 34, br. 3, 297-307, Literature review CrossRefKoBSON Anderson

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"1. The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs:... by Nader Ale Ebrahim The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs by Nader Ale Ebrahim; Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid; Shamsuddin Ahmed; Zahari Taha Article Article Language: English Publication: Industrial Engineeering & Management Systems, v10 n2 (20110601): 109-114 Database: DBpia 2. Knowledge management in Iran by Nader Ale_Ebrahim. Knowledge management in Iran by Nader Ale_Ebrahim.; Ali Ghazizadeh.; Arash Golnam. Article : Conference publication : Government publication Language: English Publication: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION, (2006 : Kuala Lumpur) : 6p. Database: WorldCat 3. A conceptual model of virtual product development... by Nader Ale_Ebrahim. A conceptual model of virtual product development process by Nader Ale_Ebrahim.; Shamsuddin Ahmed; Zahari Taha. Article : Conference publication : Government publication Language: English Publication: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY : 2ND SEMINAR ON ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY : SEMINAR PROCEEDINGS, 8th-9th July 2009, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia / p. 191-196 Database: WorldCat 4. Concurrent collaboration in research and development by Nader Ale_Ebrahim. Concurrent collaboration in research and development by Nader Ale_Ebrahim.; Shamsuddin Ahmed; Zahari Taha. Article : Conference publication : Government publication Language: English Publication: DESIGN EXCELLENCE FOR MANUFACTURING SUSTAINABILITY : PROCEEDING OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN AND CONCURRENT ENGINEERING 2008, 28-29 October 2008, Avilion Legacy Hotel, Melaka / p. 313-316 Database: WorldCat 5. View online Virtual marketing in virtual enterprises Virtual marketing in virtual enterprises by Nader Ale Ebrahim Downloadable article Publication: Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Fattahi, Hamaid

"Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency. Full Text Available Academic Journal By: Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Salehi, Hadi; Embi, Mohamed Amin; Tanha, Farid Habibi; Gholizadeh, Hossein; Motahar, Seyed; Ordi, Ali. International Education Studies. Nov2013, Vol. 6 Issue 11, p93-99. 7p. DOI: 10.5539/ies.v6n11p93. , Database: Education Research Complete Due to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation reco... Subjects: CITATION analysis; HIGHER education; UNIVERSITIES & colleges -- Ratings & rankings; OPEN access publishing; H-index (Citation analysis) Chart Graph Add to folder PDF Full Text (258KB) 2. Technology Use in the Virtual R&D Teams. Detail Only Available Academic Journal By: Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Rashid, Salwa Hanim Abdul; Taha, Zahari. American Journal of Engineering & Applied Sciences. 2012, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p9-14. 6p. 2 Diagrams, 4 Charts. , Database: Academic Search Premier The article presents a study on the use of technology in the virtual research and development (R&D) teams. Virtual teams use digital communications, video and audio links, electronic whiteboards,... Subjects: RESEARCH teams; RESEARCH & development; DIGITAL communications; INDUSTRIAL research; DIGITAL media Add to folder Check the Library catalogue to see if you have access to this title.Display library holdings for this journal title 3. Virtual Teams: a Literature Review. Detail Only Available Academic Journal By: Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari. Australian Journal of Basic & Applied Sciences. 2009, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p2653-2669. 17p. 1 Diagram, 8 Charts. , Database: Academic Search Premier In the competitive market , virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enabl...

"Co-sourcing in software development offshoring: A case study of risk perception and alleviation Research - peer-review › Article in proceeding Documents Schlichter_&_Persson_2013_-_The co-sourcing strategy in software development offshoring 301 KB, PDF-document 03/12/13 Links Proceedings By the same authors Investigating multimodal communication in virtual meetings: The sharing of dynamic representations Journal article Trust in Co-sourced Software Development Article in proceeding Business-case metode for kommunale IT-investeringer, version 2.0 Book The Cross-Cultural Knowledge Sharing Challenge: An Investigation of the Co-location Strategy in Software Development Offshoring Article in proceeding A Business Case Method for IT Investments in Danish Municipalities Book chapter Bjarne Rerup Schlichter John Stouby Persson The Faculty of Engineering and Science Department of Computer Science Research Centre for Socio-Interactive Design Information Systems SFX-link View graph of relations Software development projects are increasingly geographical distributed with offshoring, which introduce complex risks that can lead to project failure. Co-sourcing is a highly integrative and cohesive approach, seen successful, to software development offshoring. However, research of how co-sourcing shapes the perception and alleviation of common offshoring risks is limited. We present a case study of how a certified CMMI-level 5 Danish software supplier approaches these risks in offshore co-sourcing. The paper explains how common offshoring risks are perceived and alleviated when adopting the co-sourcing strategy in a mature (CMMI level 5) software development organization. We found that most of the common offshoring risks were perceived and alleviated in accordance with previous research, with the exception of the task distribution risk area. In this case, high task uncertainty, equivo

"THE MODERATING EFFEC TS OF CONTEXTUAL FAC TORS ON A BUYER'S TRUST I N E - COMMERCE PLATFORMS A ND SELLERS Xiayu Chen , USTC - CityU Joint Advanced Research Center, University of Science and Technology of China, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, cxy1023@mail.ustc.edu.cn Qian Huang, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, China, huangq@ustc.edu.cn Davison Robert , College of Business, Cit y University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, isrobert@cityu.edu.hk Zhongsheng Hua, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, China, zshua@ustc.edu.cn Abstract Drawing on trust transfer theory an d signal theory, we investigate how perceived effectiveness of e - commerce institutional mechanisms (PEEIM) and perceived website quality of the seller (PWQS) moderate the relationship s between trust in platform, trust in seller and purchase intention in th e context of Consumer to Consumer ( C2C ) platforms. To test our proposed model, we surveyed 224 buyers of TaoBao, a major Chinese C2C portal. The results indicate that PEEIM has no effect on the relationship between trust in platform and trust in seller, ye t it positively moderates the relationship between trust in seller and purchase intention. In addition, PWQS positively moderates the relationship between trust in platform and trust in seller, but negatively moderates the relationship between trust in sel ler and purchase intention. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Keywords: Trust, Platform, Seller, Purchase intention, E - commerce institutional mechanisms, Website quality. "

"WORK TOGETHER… WHEN APART CHALLENGES AND WHAT IS NEED FOR EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL TEAMS Raval, MR. R. R. and Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari (2010) WORK TOGETHER… WHEN APART CHALLENGES AND WHAT IS NEED FOR EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL TEAMS. [Journal (Paginated)] Full text available as: [img] PDF 493Kb Abstract Increasingly competitive global markets and accelerating technological changes have increased the need for people to contact via electronic medium to have daily updates, the people those who could not able to meet face to face every day. Those who contact via electronic medium i.e. Virtual Team, are having number of benefit but to achieve these potential benefits, however, leaders need to overcome liabilities inherent in the lack of direct contact among team members and managers. Team members may not naturally know how to interact effectively across space and time. By this paper author try to throw some lights on the challenges that virtual team faces and try to elaborate what is needed for Virtual Team. Item Type: Journal (Paginated) Keywords: Team, Virtual Team Subjects: Computer Science > Human Computer Interaction JOURNALS > Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology JOURNALS > Journal of Information Technology Education Electronic Publishing > Peer Review ID Code: 7701 Deposited By: Ale Ebrahim, Nader Deposited On: 10 Nov 2011 23:39 Last Modified: 10 Nov 2011 23:39 References in Article Select the SEEK icon to attempt to find the referenced article. If it does not appear to be in cogprints you will be forwarded to the paracite service. Poorly formated references will probably not work. RAVAL, M. R. R., ALE EBRAHIM, N., AHMED, S. & TAHA, Z. 2010. WORK TOGETHER… WHEN APART CHALLENGES AND WHAT IS NEED FOR EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL TEAMS. Journal of Information, Knowledge and Research in Business Management and Administration, 1, 1-3. "