ABSTRACT

The rapid changes of work, the ease of mobility, and ubiquitous use of virtual tools have fundamentally changed the way that teamwork in modern organizations is accomplished. Although these developments have elicited a broad range of studies focusing on the phenomenon of team virtuality, the construct itself is still tied to conceptual ambiguities, opposing theoretical underpinnings, and inconsistent findings. The present paper synthesizes the structural and social-constructivist elements of team virtuality in order to introduce the novel concept of team perceived virtuality (TPV), embedded within a theoretical model of its team-level emergence. We define TPV as a cognitive-affective team emergent state which is grounded in collectively experienced feelings of distance and perceptions of information deficits. We further describe how TPV emerges as a function of team members’ collectively developed co-constructions and identify antecedents that contribute towards this emergence. By disentangling perceptions from structural properties, the present paper conceptually advances our understanding of team virtuality beyond its structural characteristics. Ultimately, this conceptual work serves as a starting point for future research on team virtuality as a collectively constructed, team-level emergent construct.

摘要

工作的快速变化、移动的便利性以及虚拟工具的普遍使用已经从根本上改变了现代组织中实现团队合作的方式。尽管这些发展引发了广泛的研究，重点关注团队虚拟性现象，但构建本身仍与概念模糊、相反的理论基础和不一致的发现有关。本文综合了团队虚拟性的结构和社会建构主义元素，以引入团队感知虚拟性 (TPV) 的新概念，该概念嵌入在其团队层面出现的理论模型中。我们将 TPV 定义为基于集体体验的距离感和对信息缺陷的感知的认知-情感团队紧急状态。我们进一步描述了 TPV 如何作为团队成员共同开发的共同构建的函数而出现，并确定促成这种出现的前因。通过将感知与结构属性分开，本文从概念上提升了我们对团队虚拟性的理解，超越了其结构特征。最终，这项概念性工作作为未来团队虚拟性研究的起点，作为一个集体构建的、团队级别的紧急结构。