%0 Journal Article %1 aleebrahim2010virtual %A Ale Ebrahim, Nader %A Ahmed, Shamsuddin %A Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim %A Taha, Zahari %D 2010 %I SSRN %J International Conference on Entrepreneurship Across Boundaries, 2010 %K myown %T Virtual Teams: A New Opportunity to Develop a Business %X Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we present summary results of an online survey. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 356 Malaysian manufacturing small and medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia are gaining to use virtual teams, and it can be concluded that virtual teams provide a new platform for developing the business in SMEs. Based on the study, we suggest avenues for future research that are important to advancing our understanding of virtual team effects on business growth. Number of Pages in PDF File: 5 Keywords: Collaboration, Virtual Teams, SMEs, Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Survey

@article{aleebrahim2010virtual, abstract = {Virtual teams give many advantages to organizations, including increased knowledge sharing and improve organizational performance. Virtual teams have altered the expectations and boundaries of knowledge worker’s interactions and make a new opportunity to develop the business. In this paper, we present summary results of an online survey. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 356 Malaysian manufacturing small and medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia are gaining to use virtual teams, and it can be concluded that virtual teams provide a new platform for developing the business in SMEs. Based on the study, we suggest avenues for future research that are important to advancing our understanding of virtual team effects on business growth. Number of Pages in PDF File: 5 Keywords: Collaboration, Virtual Teams, SMEs, Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Survey }, added-at = {2012-04-26T18:45:55.000+0200}, author = {Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim and Taha, Zahari}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/28d54e299a9cf45e597a4b80d56c0c2ff/aleebrahim}, description = {Virtual Teams: A New Opportunity to Develop a Business by Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, Zahari Taha :: SSRN}, interhash = {8063cbf8ee9d37117f0a60c16b7aee8f}, intrahash = {8d54e299a9cf45e597a4b80d56c0c2ff}, journal = {International Conference on Entrepreneurship Across Boundaries, 2010 }, keywords = {myown}, language = {English}, location = {http://ssrn.com/paper=1728430}, publisher = {SSRN}, timestamp = {2012-04-26T18:45:55.000+0200}, title = {{Virtual Teams: A New Opportunity to Develop a Business}}, type = {Accepted Paper Series}, year = 2010 }