Teamwork with a punctuation mark: Face-to-face decision-making for virtual colleagues
Development and Learning in Organizations
ISSN: 1477-7282
Article publication date: 4 September 2017
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.
Design/methodology/approach
This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.
Findings
This study illustrates how a mix of face-to-face and virtual routines can ensure organizational learning in virtual teams.
Practical implications
The paper provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world’s leading organizations.
Originality/value
The briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.
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Acknowledgements
Retraction notice
The Publisher wishes to retract the precis article “Teamwork with a punctuation mark: Face-to-face decision-making for virtual colleagues”, published in Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal, Vol. 31 No. 5, pp. 29-31, 2017. It has come to the attention of Emerald Publishing that this precis article contains large sections of unattributed text taken from the original research article “Learning together and working apart: routines for organizational learning in virtual teams” by Nancy Dixon, published in The Learning Organization, Vol. 24 No. 3, 2017.
Precis articles are intended to summarise original academic research articles for a different audience, and should not include verbatim passages from the original articles. This error occurred due to a miscommunication in the commissioning process.
To avoid any repeated incidents of this nature, Emerald has fully revised its guidelines and briefed its Commissioning Editors. Development and Learning in Organizations: An International Journal sincerely apologises to the original authors and its readers for this error. The original article can be viewed here: https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-12-2016-0101.
Citation
(2017), "Teamwork with a punctuation mark: Face-to-face decision-making for virtual colleagues", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 31 No. 5, pp. 29-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-06-2017-0057
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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