Purpose – To investigate the effects of within‐group task interdependence and the degree of communications synchrony on performance in virtual teams (VT). Design/methodology/approach – A 2 × 2 factorial design of 240 participants in Spain, randomly assigned to 80 three‐person teams,...

Purpose – To analyse the impact of change‐oriented leaders on group outcomes. An explanatory model is proposed, in which the team climate (in particular as it relates to innovation) mediates between change‐oriented leadership and group outcomes, while group potency reinforces this...

Recent work concerning the effects of time on group behavior suggests that individuals’ time‐oriented behaviors may act as a catalyst or pacing mechanism for subsequent group behaviors. Other work suggests that group polychronic behavior (the group’s performance of multiple tasks...