A meta-analytic investigation of virtuality and information sharing in teams
Abbreviated Journal Title
Organ. Behav. Hum. Decis. Process.
Keywords
Team; Group; Information sharing; Virtual; Virtuality; GROUP DECISION-MAKING; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; FACE-TO-FACE; COUNTERFACTUAL MIND-SETS; UNSHARED INFORMATION; SUPPORT-SYSTEMS; SHARED; INFORMATION; GROUP JUDGMENT; WORK GROUPS; KNOWLEDGE; Psychology, Applied; Management; Psychology, Social
Abstract
We uncover new insights on the role of virtuality on team information sharing. A new two-dimensional conceptualization of information sharing (Mesmer-Magnus & DeChurch, 2009) enabled us to reconcile past inconsistencies in the virtual team literature. Recasting the findings of 94 studies (total number of groups = 5596; total N approximately = 19,702) into this framework reveals three key insights. First, virtuality improves the sharing of unique information, but hinders the openness of information sharing. Second, unique information sharing is more important to the performance of face-to-face teams than is open information sharing, whereas open information sharing is more important to the performance of virtual teams than is unique information sharing. Third, the effects of virtuality on information sharing are more curvilinear than linear - such that low levels of virtuality improve information sharing, but high levels hider it. Implications for research and practice are discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Journal Title
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Volume
115
Issue/Number
2
Publication Date
1-1-2011
Document Type
Article
Language
English
First Page
214
Last Page
225
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0749-5978
Recommended Citation
"A meta-analytic investigation of virtuality and information sharing in teams" (2011). Faculty Bibliography 2010s. 1662.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2010/1662
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