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...

Cet article s’intéresse aux impacts des open space en matière de contrôle à partir d'un travail historique. Nous nous demandons si l'espace de travail peut constituer un outil de contrôle opérationnel. Dans une première partie, nous proposons une définition historique des espaces...

Research into accountancy has concentrated largely on professional accountants and has tended to ignore accounting clerks. Based on a micro-historical approach and the case of a French company as a starting point, this study explores the evolution of workspace and demonstrates how the space...

Qu’est-ce qu’un open space ? Les bureaux ouverts - Les bureaux paysagers - Les bureaux semi-cloisonnés Pourquoi mettre en place des open spaces ? Économiser de la place - Favoriser la communication - Gommer les liens hiérarchiques - La constitution d’un secteur économique Pourquoi...

The disclosure of information to workers can take several forms (company journal, meeting with shop stewards, etc). This paper is about a form rarely studied: the boss's speech at the work medal ceremony. These medals were created by the ministry of commerce in France in 1886. The success of...

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)....