The purpose of this paper is to identify the key roles that enable e-leaders to build high-quality exchanges with their team members. We use behavioral complexity theory to analyze the roles played by leaders of virtual teams, and helping them to develop effective leader-member exchanges (LMX)....

This chapter investigates the role of e-leaders in building and maintaining collective awareness within virtual teams. The authors examine the effects of behavioral leadership orientation on collective awareness building. The study explores the bi-dimensional structure of both collective...

The debate on distance teams, mostly virtual teams, has been especially prominent in the academic literature for the last few years. Among the different concepts that have been studied by researchers, little attention has been paid explicitly to national culture. Although sometimes presented as...

E-leadership has emerged in virtual team literature as an important determinant of relationship building. However, the way e-leaders develop high quality relationship between virtual team members is little understood. The purpose of this paper is to identify the key roles that enable virtual...

La question du respect de la vie privée dans l'entreprise et dans les relations commerciales a suscité un intérêt particulier au cours de ces derniers mois. Licenciement pour usage personnel de l'Internet dans l'entreprise, courrier électronique « ouvert » par l'employeur (Kovach & alii,...

The proliferation of articles in the press, the media, and on the Internet demonstrate a real interest in the Web 2.0 phenomenon. The concept can be seen as a new step in the development of the Internet network as evidenced by its “2.0” label, in opposition to Web 1.0. All the same, it is...

La présente recherche s'intéresse à la contribution des TIC au développement du sentiment d'urgence dans les entreprises et à son lien avec les notions de surcharge informationnelle et de surcharge d'activité. Si la notion de surcharge informationnelle n'est pas nouvelle en soi, sa...