Preliminary insights into the in-group/out-group effect in partially distributed teams: An analysis of participant reflections

SIGMIS CPR'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 264-272

  Huang, Haiyan ^a   Ocker, Rosalie ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Conflict; Distributed Teams; Distributed Work; In Group Out Group Effect; Trust; Virtual Teams

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CONFLICT; DISTRIBUTED TEAMS; DISTRIBUTED WORK; IN-GROUP/OUT-GROUP EFFECT; TRUST; VIRTUAL TEAMS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 33745847813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (39)

1. Armstrong, D.J., and Cole, P. (2002). "Managing distance and differences in geographically distributed work groups." In Distributed Work, P. Hinds, and S. Kiesler (Eds.), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 167-186.
2. Bos, N., Shami, N.S., Olson, J.S., Cheshin, A., and Nan, N. (2004). "In-group/out-group effects in distributed teams: an experimental simulation." Proceedings of CSCW'04, Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 429-436.
3. Burke, K. and Aytes, K. (1998). "A Longitudinal Analysis of the Effects of Media Richness on Cohesion Development and Process Satisfaction in Computer-Supported Workgroups." Proceedings of HCISS, 1998, 135-144.
4. Cramton, C.D. (2001). "The Mutual Knowledge Problem and its Consequences for Dispersed Collaboration." Organization Science, 12(3), 2001, 346-371.
5. Cramton, C.D. (2002). "Attributions in distributed work groups." In Distributed Work, P. Hinds, and S. Kiesler (Eds.), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, pp. 191-211.
6. Cramton, C.D. and Webber, S.S. (2005). "Relationships among Geographic Dispersion, Team Processes, and Effectiveness in Software Development Work Teams." Journal of Business Research, 58(6), 758-765.
7. DeSanctis, G. and Poole, M. (1997). "Transition in teamwork in new organizational forms." Advances in Group Process, 14, 157-176.
8. Dubé, L. and Paré, G. (2004). "The multifaceted nature of virtual teams." In Virtual Teams: Projects, Protocols and Processes, D.J. Pauleen (Ed.), Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, pp. 1-39.
9. Flippen, A.R. (1999). "Understanding Groupthink From A Self-Regulatory Perspective." Small Group Research, 30, 139-165.
10. Furst, S., Blackburn, R. and Rosen, B. (1999). "Virtual team effectiveness: a proposed research agenda." Information Systems Journals, 9, 249-269.
11. Griffith, T.L., Mannix, E.A., and Neale, M.A. (2003). "Conflicts and virtual teams." In Virtual Teams That Work: Creating Conditions for Virtual Team Effectiveness, C.B. Gibson and S.G. Cohen (Eds.), San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 335-352.
12. Hinds, P.J. and Bailey, D.E. (2003). sight, out of sync: Understanding conflict in distributed teams." Organization Science, 14(6), 615-632.
13. Jarvenpaa, S., Knoll, K., and Leidner, D. (1998). "Is anybody out there: antecedents of trust in global virtual teams?" Journal of Management Information Systems, 14(4), 25-57.
14. Jarvenpaa, S. and Leidner, D. (1999). "Communication and trust in global virtual teams." Organization Science, 10(6), 791-815.
15. Jehu, K.A. (1995). "A multimethod examination of the benefits and detriments of intragroup conflict." Administrative Science Quarterly, 40(2), 256-282.
16. Jehn, K.A. (1997). "A qualitative analysis of conflict types and dimensions in organizational groups." Administrative Science Quarterly, 42, 530-557.
17. Jehn, K.A., and Mannix, E.A. (2001). "The dynamic nature of conflict: a longitudinal study of intragroup conflict and group performance." Academy of Management Journal, (44), 238-251.
18. Lander, M.C., Purvis, R.L., McCray, G.E. and Leigh, W. (2004). "Trust-building mechanisms utilized in outsourced IS development projects: a case study." Information and Management, 41, 509-528.
19. Lau, D.C. and Murnighan, J.K. (1998). "Demographic diversity and faultlines: the compositional dynamics of organizational groups." The Academy of Management Review, 23(2), 325-340.
20. Lewicki, R.L., Bunker, B.B. (1996). "Developing and maintaining trust in work relationships." In Trust in Organizations: Frontiers of Theory and Research, R.M. Kramer, and T.R. Tyler (Eds.), Thousands Oak, CA: Sage Publications, 114-139.
21. Mackie, D., Worth, L. and Asuncion, A. (1990). "Processing of persuasive in-group messages." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58, 812-823.
22. Maugain, O. (2003). Ph. D. Thesis: Managing Multicultural R&D Teams - An In-Depth Case Study of a Research Project at CERN, 2003. Retrieved from: http://www.unisg.ch/www/edis.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/2 820/$FILE/dis2820.pdf
23. Mayer, R.C., Davis, J.H. and Schoorman, F.D. (1995). "An integrative model of organizational trust." Academy of Management Review, 20(3), 709-734.
24. Montoya-Weiss, M.M., Massey, A.P. and Song, M. (2001). "Getting it together: Temporal coordination and conflict management in global virtual teams." Academy of Management Journal, 44, 1251-1262.
25. Mortensen, M. and Hinds, P. (2001). "Conflict and shared identity in geographically distributed teams." International Journal of Conflict Management, 12(3), 212-238.
26. Ocker, R.J. (2005). "Influences on creativity in asynchronous virtual teams: a qualitative analysis of experimental teams." IEEE Transaction on Professional Communication, 48(1), 22-39.
27. Panteli, N. and Davison, R.M. (2005). "The role of subgroups in the communication patterns of global virtual teams." IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 48(2), 191-200.
28. Paul, S., Seetharaman, P., Samarah, I. and Mykytyn, P.Jr. (2004). "Impact of heterogeneity and collective conflict management style on the performance of synchronous global virtual teams." Information & Management, 41, 303-321.
29. Pinsonneault, A. and Caya, O. (2005). "Virtual team: what we know, what we don't know." International Journal of e-Collaboration, 1(3), 1-16.
30. Polzer, J. (in press). "How subgroup interests and reputations moderate the effect of organizational identification on cooperation." Journal of Management.
31. Poole, M. S., Holmes, M. and Desanctis, G. (1991). "Conflict management in a computer-supported meeting environment." Management Science, 37(8), 926-953.
32. Powell, A., Piccoli, G. and Ives, B. "Virtual teams: a review of current literature and directions for future research." The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, 35(1), 6-36.
33. Sarker, S., Lau, F. and Shay, S. (2001). "Using an adapted grounded theory approach for inductive theory building about virtual team development" The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, 32(1), 38-56.
34. th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
35. Shami, N.S., Bos, N., Wright, Z., Hoch, S., Kuan, K.Y., Olson, J.S. and Olson G.M. (2004). "An experimental Simulation of multi-site software development." Proceedings of GASCON, 255-266.
36. nd Edition, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
37. Tajfel, H. (1978). Differentiation between Social Groups: Studies in the Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations Academic Press, London, UK.
38. Tajfel, H., and Turner, J.C. (1986). The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behaviour. In S. Worchel and W.G. Austin (Eds.), Psychology of Intergroup Relations, Nelson, Chicago, IL, pp. 7-24.
39. Turner, J.C. (1981). The Experimental Social Psychology of Intergroup Behaviour. In J.C. Turner and H. Giles (Eds.), Intergroup Behaviour, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 66-101.