Mobile business is conducted extensively through mobile phones, which, unlike wired e-commerce client computers, can be used anywhere and anytime, and consequently are often used in social settings such as while walking on a sidewalk, eating in a restaurant, driving a car, and waiting for an...

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...

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...

Based on a literature review, this article draws a conceptual framework about the different uses of IT to control networks of firms. Four ways of using IT are discussed and compared. Rather than opposing one another, they are usually part of a pool of control mechanisms with which they interact...

As the range of ICT applications in business organizations grows ever larger and takes up an increasing amount of time, the question arises as to whether this could have an impact on meetings. This paper explores the extent to which the use of ICTs replaces face-to-face interactions. The data...

Travail nomade, mobile, télétravail à domicile... En quelques années, le travail à distance, soutenu par les TIC, est devenu une réalité incontournable. Les pratiques de management se sont réinventées autour de la mobilité. Cet ouvrage présente les nouveaux modes d'organisation, de...