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Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business

Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we prese...

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Main Authors: Ale Ebrahim, N., Ahmed, S., Abdul Rashid, S.H., Taha , Z.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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H Social Sciences (General)
L Education (General)
T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/2248/1/A%2520New%2520Opportunity%2520to%2520Develop%2520a%2520Business-ICoEAB%25202010.pdf
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1728430
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spelling my.um.eprints.22482011-10-31T04:35:42Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/2248/ Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business Ale Ebrahim, N. Ahmed, S. Abdul Rashid, S.H. Taha , Z. H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) T Technology (General) Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we present summary results of an online survey. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 356 Malaysian manufacturing small and medium –sized Enterprises (SMEs). The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia are gaining to use virtual teams, and it can be concluded that virtual teams provide a new platform for developing the business in SMEs. Based on the study, we suggest avenues for future research that are important to advancing our understanding of virtual team effects on business growth. 2010-08-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_sa http://eprints.um.edu.my/2248/1/A%2520New%2520Opportunity%2520to%2520Develop%2520a%2520Business-ICoEAB%25202010.pdf Ale Ebrahim, N. and Ahmed, S. and Abdul Rashid, S.H. and Taha , Z. (2010) Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business. In: International Conference on Entrepreneurship Across Boundaries, 5 - 6 AUGUST, Section For Co-curricular Courses, External Faculty Electives and TITAS, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1728430
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
L Education (General)
T Technology (General)
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
L Education (General)
T Technology (General)
Ale Ebrahim, N.
Ahmed, S.
Abdul Rashid, S.H.
Taha , Z.
Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business
description Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we present summary results of an online survey. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 356 Malaysian manufacturing small and medium –sized Enterprises (SMEs). The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia are gaining to use virtual teams, and it can be concluded that virtual teams provide a new platform for developing the business in SMEs. Based on the study, we suggest avenues for future research that are important to advancing our understanding of virtual team effects on business growth.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ale Ebrahim, N.
Ahmed, S.
Abdul Rashid, S.H.
Taha , Z.
author_facet Ale Ebrahim, N.
Ahmed, S.
Abdul Rashid, S.H.
Taha , Z.
author_sort Ale Ebrahim, N.
title Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business
title_short Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business
title_full Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business
title_fullStr Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business
title_full_unstemmed Virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business
title_sort virtual teams: a new opportunity to develop a business
publishDate 2010
url http://eprints.um.edu.my/2248/1/A%2520New%2520Opportunity%2520to%2520Develop%2520a%2520Business-ICoEAB%25202010.pdf
http://eprints.um.edu.my/2248/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1728430
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