Communications of the ACM
Testing Media Richness Theory in the New Media: the Effects of Cues, Feedback, and Task Equivocality
Information Systems Research
Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams
Organization Science
Bridging Space Over Time: Global Virtual Team Dynamics and Effectiveness
Organization Science
Research Commentary: The Next Wave of Nomadic Computing
Information Systems Research
Rethinking Media Richness: Towards a Theory of Media Synchronicity
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 1 - Volume 1
Trust in Virtual Teams: Towards an Integrative Model of Trust Formation
HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 1 - Volume 1
Virtual teams: a review of current literature and directions for future research
ACM SIGMIS Database
A Relational View of Information Seeking and Learning in Social Networks
Management Science
Information Systems Research
From Freedom to Involvement: On the Rhetoric of Mobility in HCI Research
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 1 - Volume 01
Toward Contextualized Theories of Trust: The Role of Trust in Global Virtual Teams
Information Systems Research
Is anybody out there?: antecedents of trust in global virtual teams
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Managing virtual workplaces and teleworking with information technology
Relational Antecedents of Information Flow Integration for Supply Chain Coordination
Journal of Management Information Systems
The complexity of richness: Media, message, and communication outcomes
Information and Management
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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With advances in the areas of telecommunications, computing and miniaturization of computers, the use of mobile technology is becoming prevalent within organizations. Consequently, a shift towards a nomadic computing environment, capable of supporting workers anywhere and anytime, is commonly observed. While many of the issues associated with such environments are technological in nature, this paper focuses on the social aspect of the shift to a nomadic computing environment, and examines its impact of employees' ability to effectively collaborate with one another. Studying changes at the individual level, we argue that an increase in workers' social mobility, brought upon by the move to a nomadic computing environment, is likely to have a negative effect on their social capital. Social capital has been shown to positively impact collaboration in various settings, including the workplace. We further argue that the above negative effect is contingent upon the type of mobile technology used by nomadic workers. The paper concludes with suggestions for model extensions and avenues for future research.