Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements: Contemporary Issues and Implications (Advances in E–Collaboration)

Virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering bring teams, product engineering, and processes into the 21st century through the use of e–collaboration technologies. These powerful tools accomplish work efficiently and effectively, whether communication takes place only through e–collaboration technologies or in combination with face–to–face interaction.

Virtual Team Leadership and Collaborative Engineering Advancements: Contemporary Issues and Implications addresses a range of e–collaboration topics, with emphasis on two particularly challenging ones: virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering. With contributing authors among the most accomplished e–collaboration, virtual team leadership, and collaborative engineering researchers in the world today, this book presents a blend of conceptual, theoretical, and applied chapters creating a publication that will serve both academics and practitioners.

About the Author:

Ned Kock is professor and founding chair of the Division of International Business and Technology Studies at Texas A&M International University. He holds degrees in electronics engineering (BEE), computer science (MS), and management information systems (PhD). Ned has authored several books, and published in a number of journals including Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Transactions, Information & Management, Information Systems Journal, Information Technology & People, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. He is the editor–in–chief of the International Journal of e–Collaboration, associate editor of the Journal of Systems and Information Technology, and associate editor for information systems of the journal IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication.