Virtual R&D Teams

Virtual R&D teams and SMEs growth: A comparative study between ..

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Providing appropriate compensation is also a challenge. Integrators can look like individual contributors even when managing a large “virtual” team; if that is the case, it may initially be hard to justify attractive salaries. Executives who were at Hewlett-Packard when it set up its value chain integration program in the 1990s found a way around this, explicitly compensating managers based on their span of control both internally and externally.

Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs Ale Ebrahim, Nader ; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim; Taha, Zahari