Technology alignment: A new area in virtual team research

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Technology use and adaptation are the center of attention in research on virtual teams. Through empirical observations from six interpretative cases of virtual teams, we suggest conceptualizing the relationship between technology-use practices and collaborative practices as a technology-alignment process. We define technology alignment based upon four key perspectives on technology-use practices: continuous iterative process, reflection-on-action activities, malleability and reconfigurability, and transformation. Moreover, we show how these four key perspectives influence the design, the outcome, the task processes, and the socioemotional processes of the particular virtual team.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5291745
JournalIEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Volume53
Issue number4
Pages (from-to)382-400
Number of pages19
ISSN0361-1434
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2010

    Research areas

  • Collaboration, interpretative qualitative empirical cases, technology alignment, technology in use, virtual teams

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