virtual team to enhance their performance and competitiveness. Despite virtual teams growing prevalence, relatively little is … known about this new form of team. Hence the study offers an extensive literature review with definitions of virtual teams … needed for effective virtual team considering the people, process and technology point of view and underlying characteristics …

New product development (NPD) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) virtual team has not been systematically … general. New product development especially for SMEs virtual team are somewhat lacking in the literature and constitute a … then identifies the critical factors in definition of NPD in SMEs virtual team. The statistical method was utilized to …

Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive … innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and … innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more …

and relevance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R&D team for SMEs and new product development (NPD) has … research in this area. It is argued to form of virtual R&D team deserves consideration at top level management for venturing …

considered as the basic core of the product development and innovation. Due to structural shortcomings, a great number of …

have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general, whereas NPD in SME’s virtual team … successful new products to the marketplace. Virtual team can be a solution to answer the requested demand. However, literature …

accepted that innovation can be better achieved by working in team particularly in the virtual environments. The employed web … and analyzing the process of virtual R&D team as an innovation and technology assimilation facilitator when it comes to …Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company's success in the 21st century. In the competitive …

explains how virtual R&D team can play a prominent role in developing new products. The article is evolved future study … guideline and also illustrates how to apply virtual interaction tools and integrate engineers into the innovation process … importance, but the issue has been poorly addressed in the previous studies. Findings show that virtual R&D team provides …

&D environment, organizations individually or collectively need to incorporate virtual R&D team. A virtual R&D team can introduce new … the perspective of their impact on virtual R&D team in enterprises and compares the findings with the other concepts of … virtual R&D teams applicable to enterprises. Distinctive benefits of establishing virtual R&D team have been enumerated and …