... teams working on real‐world projects. To understand what virtual team members actually do to temporally coordinate their dispersed activities, more longitudinal research on virtual teams in their “natural habitat” would be helpful. Communication Virtual organizations Electronic mail...

... studies Control Electronic mail Management The last decades have witnessed an exponential increase in the diffusion of office technologies. The new technologies have redefined the nature of office work, making different‐time/different‐place/different‐culture teams the norm in many organisations...

... Bureaucracy Consultations Discussions Electronic mail Local area networks Participation Autonomy, academic freedom, equality and participatory, consensus‐based decision making have traditionally been valued aspects of university life. These traditions are now being challenged by external forces...

..., especially electronic mail, have been well documented in businesses, education and research (Garton and Wellman, 1994; Johnson‐Lenz and Johnson‐Lenz, 1994; Kaye, 1992; Rice and Steinfield, 1994; Valacich et al., 1993). Nonetheless, although there is much debate and speculation about its...