Virtual Teams and the Appropriation of Communication Technology: Exploring the Concept of Media Stickiness

dc.contributor.authorHuysman, Marleen
dc.contributor.authorSteinfield, Charles
dc.contributor.authorJang, Chyng-Yang
dc.contributor.authorDavid, Kenneth
dc.contributor.authorin 't Veld, Mirjam Huis
dc.contributor.authorPoot, Jan
dc.contributor.authorMulder, Ingrid
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-06T09:06:46Z
dc.date.available2020-06-06T09:06:46Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports on an exploratory study ofthe evolving use of communication tools by sixglobally distributed teams. The analysissuggest that although teams have similarstart-up conditions they evolve in differentways. We describe these differences as being aresult of the different routine patterns ofmedia use that the team members mutuallyenacted. Based on an analysis of six US-Dutchvirtual teams, we propose the notion of `mediastickiness', a phenomenon the teamsexperienced during the process of structuringmedia-use patterns. We will argue that in thecase of virtual teams, the evolution of mediausage seems to be path dependent. Steps takenby a team in the early stages of its life cycleconstrain later flexibility in terms of mediausage. Media stickiness has severalimplications both for the way to manage virtualteams as well as for the way teams deal withinformation problems that seem to be endemicfor global virtual teams.de
dc.identifier.doi10.1023/A:1026145017609
dc.identifier.pissn1573-7551
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1026145017609
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3626
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 12, No. 4
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
dc.subjectappropriation
dc.subjectcommunication technology
dc.subjectmedia stickiness
dc.subjectvirtual teams
dc.titleVirtual Teams and the Appropriation of Communication Technology: Exploring the Concept of Media Stickinessde
dc.typeText/Journal Article
gi.citation.endPage436
gi.citation.startPage411

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