Information Systems Research
A course in collaborative computing: collaborative learning and research with a global perspective
Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Global collaboration in course delivery: are we there yet?
ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
ICGSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fourth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering
Students analyzing their collaboration in an international open ended group project
FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
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Working in global virtual teams (GVTs), raises a number of issues variously relating to technology, tasks and people working in their different locations and institutional contexts. Achieving alignment across these elements can be challenging. Collaborative Technologies inherently require the participants to work in collaboration and globally distributed settings can place strain on these arrangements. An added complication comes from the need to work not only across boundaries of time and place but also across cultures. This paper reports the findings from a study of a global virtual collaboration between three universities in New Zealand, Sweden and USA. It discusses the complex and multi-layered concept of 'culture' and presents a means of mapping "cultural fit" across a global virtual team context.