%0 Journal Article %1 aleebrahim1905virtual %A Ale Ebrahim, Nader %A Ahmed, Shamsuddin %A Taha, Zahari %D 2011 %I SSRN %J Academic Leadership Journal, 9(4), pp. 1-4, Fall 2011 %K growth literature teams virtual %N 4 %P 1-4 %T Virtual R&D Teams: A Potential Growth of Education-Industry Collaboration %V 9 %X With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry 1. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations 2. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness 3-4. Number of Pages in PDF File: 5 Keywords: Virtual R&D teams, Collaboration, virtual teams, SMEs, Education JEL Classifications: Q32, Q31, L17, P29, O1, O3, O32, Q1, P42, L1, L11, L2, M11, M12, M24, M1

@article{aleebrahim1905virtual, abstract = { With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations [2]. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness [3-4]. Number of Pages in PDF File: 5 Keywords: Virtual R&D teams, Collaboration, virtual teams, SMEs, Education JEL Classifications: Q32, Q31, L17, P29, O1, O3, O32, Q1, P42, L1, L11, L2, M11, M12, M24, M1 }, added-at = {2012-04-26T19:13:17.000+0200}, author = {Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Ahmed, Shamsuddin and Taha, Zahari}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b3663a12a60a74c7683998b9397c84af/aleebrahim}, description = {Virtual R&D Teams: A Potential Growth of Education-Industry Collaboration by Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha :: SSRN}, interhash = {43722e652173213f6aa87c1280e1636b}, intrahash = {b3663a12a60a74c7683998b9397c84af}, journal = {Academic Leadership Journal, 9(4), pp. 1-4, Fall 2011}, keywords = {growth literature teams virtual}, language = {English}, location = {http://ssrn.com/paper=2042160}, number = 4, pages = {1-4}, publisher = {SSRN}, timestamp = {2012-04-26T19:13:17.000+0200}, title = {{Virtual R&D Teams: A Potential Growth of Education-Industry Collaboration}}, type = {Accepted Paper Series}, volume = 9, year = 2011 }