Abstract
We seek to identify work practices that make technology-supported, self-organizing, distributed (or virtual) teams (TSSODT for short) effective in producing outputs satisfactory to their sponsors, meeting the needs of their members, and continuing to function. A particularly important practice for team effectiveness is decision making: are the right decisions made at the right time to get the work done in a way that satisfies team sponsors, keeps contributors happy and engaged, and enables continued team success? In this research-in-progress paper, we report on an inductive qualitative analysis of 120 decision episodes taken by two Free/Libre Open Source Software development teams. Our analysis revealed differences in decision-making practices that seem to be related to differences in overall team effectiveness.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 649-660 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| State | Published - 2006 |
| Event | 27th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2006 - Milwaukee, WI, United States Duration: Dec 10 2006 → Dec 13 2006 |
Other
| Other | 27th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2006 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Milwaukee, WI |
| Period | 12/10/06 → 12/13/06 |
Keywords
- Decision-making practices
- Distributed teams
- Free/Libre Open Source Software development teams
- Leadership
- Selforganizing teams
- Team effectiveness
- Technology-supported teams
- Virtual teams
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems