provides a comprehensive literature review on different aspects of virtual R & D teams collected from the reputed publications … collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the foundation and importance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R & D team and …

research and development (R&D) teams in SMEs can offer a solution to speed up time-to-market of new product development (NPD …). However, factors that affect the effectiveness of virtual teams for NPD are still not adequately verified. This paper presents … Development Team” (ViR&DT) model. The items, which may influence the effectiveness of virtual teams, are taken from the literature …

nowadays but it is still not mature enough, so dealing with it can bring new findings. Virtual teams base on information … paper briefly reviews the existing perspectives on virtual teams and their effect on innovation and technology. It also … discusses the main characteristics of virtual teams and clarifies the differences aspects of virtual team application in the …

-to-face teams. The complexities involved in organizing face-to-face interactions among team members from one side, and the rapid … developments of electronic communication technologies from the other ,caused firms to turn towards employing virtual R&D teams. The …

&D) engineers via virtual teams. Consequently engineers also get more expertise in diminutive time-frames. Virtual R&D teams present … life-cycles. Virtual R&D teams may reduce time-to-market, make available a large pool of new product know-how and provide … and extracts the results. This article presents the type of virtual teams and their main features and explains how virtual …

business processes, services and products R&D teams need to access and retrieve information from as many sources as possible …. From the other perspective virtual teams are important mechanisms for organizations seeking to control scarce resources …. The potential value that is created by virtual R&D teams for new product development is explored. Lastly, pertinent …

the NPD and its relationship with virtuality and then identifies the critical factors of NPD in virtual teams. The …

findings. Virtual teams base on information technology are formed to facilitate transnational innovation processes and it … paper briefly reviews the existing perspectives on virtual teams and their effect on innovation and technology regarding the … learning capability which is being altered. It also discusses the main characteristics of virtual teams and clarifies the …

The literature related to virtual R&D teams reveals a lack of depth in the definitions (Ale Ebrahim et al., 2010 …). Although virtual teamwork is a current topic in the literature concerning global organizations, it is problematic to define the … meaning of 'virtual teams' across multiple institutional contexts (Chudoba et al., 2005). The concept of a "team" is described …

education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope … (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with …