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I "pacchetti" di controllo manageriale nei team virtuali

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  • Guido Noto
  • Carmelo Marisca
  • Gustavo Barresi

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Studies on the management of virtual teams emerged in the international literature debate since the last decade of XX century. The Covid-19 pandemic turn the spot-light on this topic since many organizations had to transform their face-to-face teams into virtual ones through the adoption of remote working modes ? at least during lockdown restriction periods. Previous literature on virtual teams has devot-ed scant attention to management control issues. This research aims to fill this gap by exploring how management control ?packages? changed ? and are still chang-ing ? to cope with virtual teams. To do that, this work undertakes a cross-sectional field study based on semi-structured interviews with 27 managers of different companies. As a result, it emerges that the control of virtual teams requires the adoption ? or strengthening ? of mechanisms to compensate for the reduced availability of cultural controls.

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  • Guido Noto & Carmelo Marisca & Gustavo Barresi, 2023. "I "pacchetti" di controllo manageriale nei team virtuali," MANAGEMENT CONTROL, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2023(3), pages 43-62.
    • Handle: RePEc:fan:macoma:v:html10.3280/maco2023-003003
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