Title

Distributed Coordination Space: Toward A Theory Of Distributed Team Process And Performance

Keywords

Computer supported collaborative work; Coordination; Coordination decrement; Distributed teams; Shared mental models; Team opacity; Virtual teams

Abstract

This paper discusses a theoretical framework designed to elucidate the many issues surrounding distributed team performance, emphasizing how work characteristics associated with such teams may alter both the processes and the products emerging from distributed interaction. It is suggested that distributed team performance can best be understood through conceptualization of a coordination space within which distributed interaction occurs over time and distance. The goal is to take a socio-technical approach to distributed team research so that one can explicate both the cognitive consequences of a lack of co-location as well as the social consequences affecting interaction and team development when work is technology-mediated. The overall objective is to present a framework of ‘distributed coordination’ such that the principles most appropriate for distributed team performance can be developed. © 2003 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publication Title

Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science

Volume

4

Issue

3-4

Number of Pages

340-364

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/1463922021000049971

Socpus ID

85008758933 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85008758933

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