"Virtual teams are literally and metaphorically invisible": Forging identity in culturally diverse virtual teams

Employee Relations

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-287

  Au, Yee ^a   Marks, Abigail ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Identification; Racial discrimination; Racial stereotypes; Social identity theory; Virtual organizations; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860386762     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425451211217707     Document Type: Article

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