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...

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...

This paper deals with projects’ performance. To be more precise, we endeavor to redeem the concept of commercial failure, by making a critical appraisal of certain works on innovation journey. We show that product innovation is not always characterized by a stream of interdependent projects....

Les lancements de nouveaux produits sont en proie à des risques d’échec très importants. Et pourtant, on constate que la plupart des travaux en sciences de gestion ont un biais en faveur du succès. Ce constat justifie pleinement l’intérêt d’une recherche empirique – fondée sur...

Les lancements de nouveaux produits sont en proie à des risques d’échec très importants. Et pourtant, on constate que la plupart des travaux en sciences de gestion ont un biais en faveur du succès. Ce constat justifie pleinement l’intérêt d’une recherche empirique – fondée sur...

In June 2005, the scientific journal Long Range Planning devoted a special issue to organizational failure, with a focus on papers showing that firms are largely encouraged to learn from failures, but that this is often easier said than done. At the same time, the Journal of Organizational...

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)....