Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, new forms of working together have been developed, such as global or local virtual team collaboration or extensive work-from-home. Today work is increasingly team-based, digitalized and flexible, with wide-ranging implications for the skill set required by employees, management, and organizations, for how humans are going to integrate work and life, and for how future society, business and ecology will develop. 

In this textbook with an excellent didactic structure students and practitioners find a wide range of knowledge in ten essential areas of virtual team collaboration. It covers key requirements, responsibilities, and practices for setting up and maintaining high performance virtual teams on both local and global levels.

This textbook has been recommended and developed for university courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

<p>Introduction: Why this book, and what makes it unique?

Chapter 1: Virtual team collaboration and the digital transformation: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a five-factor model
Chapter 2: Information and Communication Technologies in virtual team collaboration: Configuration challenges and solutions
Chapter 3: Communication as enabler of virtual team collaboration: Properties and best practices
Chapter 4: Building collaborative cultures in cross-functional and interdisciplinary virtual teams: Relationship management, project time planning and workspace organization
Chapter 5: Organizational design and core technologies for virtual collaboration: How to shape the conditions under which the team can thrive
Chapter 6: Digital leadership and virtual team collaboration: Options and success factors for Industry 4.0
Chapter 7: Cross-cultural management of virtual team collaboration: Cultural dimensions and intercultural competencies for culturally diverse settings
Chapter 8: Global leadership and English language management in virtual team collaboration: Considering globalization, digitalization and power effects
Chapter 9: Change and learning, tacit knowledge management and virtual team innovativeness under BANI conditions: The role of leadership, organization and technology
Chapter 10: Digital ethics, artificial intelligence, and responsible research and innovation: Sustainable and inclusive virtual team collaboration for a better future.</p>