IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/lnichp/978-3-319-07905-9_19.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Effect of Consistency Between Leadership and Technology on Knowledge Integration in GDTs

In: Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control

Author

Listed:
  • Vincenza Poliandri

    (Università di Bologna)

  • Elisa Mattarelli

    (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

  • Fabiola Bertolotti

    (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

  • Maria Rita Tagliaventi

    (Università di Bologna)

  • Alessandro Grandi

    (Università di Bologna)

Abstract

The literature on distributed work has recognized the importance of enhancing our understanding of how leadership processes change in globally distributed teams (GDTs), and of the interplay between leadership processes and the use of collaborative technologies. However, we still find limited, and sometimes contradictory, empirical evidence on the topic. Following the theoretical framework of e-leadership, the aim of this paper is to explore how emergent and formal leadership processes co-evolve with the use of collaborative technologies in GDTs and their influence on team performance. We conducted a multiple case study in five GDTs engaged in scientific collaborations. Our analysis suggests that the attainment of consistency between leadership processes and technology use is related to better knowledge integration, which is an important antecedent of overall team performance.

Suggested Citation

  • Vincenza Poliandri & Elisa Mattarelli & Fabiola Bertolotti & Maria Rita Tagliaventi & Alessandro Grandi, 2014. "The Effect of Consistency Between Leadership and Technology on Knowledge Integration in GDTs," Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization, in: Daniela Baglieri & Concetta Metallo & Cecilia Rossignoli & Mario Pezzillo Iacono (ed.), Information Systems, Management, Organization and Control, edition 127, pages 263-271, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnichp:978-3-319-07905-9_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07905-9_19
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:lnichp:978-3-319-07905-9_19. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.