Leading Together, Working Together: The Role of Team Shared Leadership in Building Collaborative Capital in Virtual Teams

Abstract

Due to geographic dispersion and reliance on technology-mediated communication, developing collaborative capital can be a challenge in a virtual team. Knowledge sharing is one form of collaborative capital that has been identified as critical to virtual team success. This chapter develops a theoretical model that proposes that shared leadership in virtual teams is positively related to knowledge sharing between team members, and that this relationship will be partially mediated by trust. The model also shows that a team's degree of reliance on technology-mediated communication will moderate the relationships in the model.

Citation

Sharon Hill, N. (2005), "Leading Together, Working Together: The Role of Team Shared Leadership in Building Collaborative Capital in Virtual Teams", Beyerlein, M.M., Beyerlein, S.T. and Kennedy, F.A. (Ed.) Collaborative Capital: Creating Intangible Value (Advances in Interdisciplinary Studies of Work Teams, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 183-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1572-0977(05)11007-3