Influence and Political Processes in Cyberspace: The Case of Global Virtual Teams

“…played by individuals or groups within the organization, designed to promote individual or collective goals that run counter to broader organizational goals or the interests of other individuals (Bozeman, et al., 1996; Drory, 1993; Elron & Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Ferris et al., 1996; Vigoda, 2000).”

“Personal relationships can be developed (Sarker & Sahay, 2003), and so can common understanding (Espinosa et al., 2006), and strong work processes (Powell, Galvin, & Piccoli, 2004)—all of which contribute to more effective virtual teamwork.”

“For instance, the lack of physical contact may affect the building of trust, necessary in some cultures, to facilitate decision making (Elron & Viga-Gadot, 2006).”

“In fact, other researchers on influence tactics have already used exploratory or qualitative approaches to understand their determinants, consequences and dynamics (see, for example, Elron & Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Kaul & Tal, 2003; Yukl, Kim, & Falbe, 1996).”

“I also apply some of the results of the growing research area on influential tactics in virtual teams, as actual social media interactions take place in a virtual environment (Elron and Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Steizel and RimbauGilabert, 2013).”

“…types such as municipalities in the public sector (Vigoda, 2000; Vigoda-Gadot & Meisler, 2010), the hospitality industry in the private sector (Valle et al., 2003), financial organizations (Meisler & Vigoda-Gadot, 2014), and even in global virtual organizations (Elron & Vigoda-Gadot, 2006).”

“Apart from empirical studies described above, conceptual studies by Hambrick et al. (1998) and Milliken and Martins (1996) have explained the effect of national cultural diversity on cognition, language, nature of task impacting team performance in the long run.”

“This journal has said much about virtual teams in cross-cultural space over the years (Arora et al., 2019; Cunha and Cunha, 2001; Elron and Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Mockaitis et al., 2012) and exploring the implications in a post-COVID corporate world would be an important contribution.”

“Even though these processes are typically informal in nature and not organizationally sanctioned, they nevertheless influence power structures within organizations [ 10 , 37].”

“A relevant factor that affects employee perceptions in distant teams is that of cultural bias (Anawati & Craig, 2006; Elron & Vigoda-Gadot, 2006).”

“Elron and Vigoda-Gadot [15] found that when ICTs are used as the main communication channel between team members the limitations of the communication increase, as technology cannot provide the same richness as face-to-face interactions and potentially hinder the effectiveness of knowledge sharing.”

“…politics among subordinates that exert the most direct and powerful influence because team politics directly affect team morale and performance (Elron & Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Vigoda-Gadot & Vashdi, 2017) and leaders have discretion in self-regulating their justice behaviors toward employees…”

“Accordingly, postulated recommendations to inhibit micro-politics through stronger structuring have to be critically reflected (cf. Elron & Vigoda-Gadot, 2003, 2006).”

“…virtual global teams for organizational processes has become commonplace, and organizations are now focusing on how to foster their effectiveness (Elron & Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Grenier & Metes, 1995; Haas, 2006; Hardin, Fuller, & Davison, 2007; Harvey, Novicevic, & Garrison, 2004; 2005; Lipnack &…”

“Distance work involves the interaction between different national cultures, and this variable may impact on the influence choice (Elron and Vigoda-Gadot, 2006; Hirokawa and Miyahara 1986; Yeh, 1995).”

“This study is an important contribution because there are limited studies on the difference in POP in work modalities in the politics and teleworking literature (e.g., Elron & Vigoda-Gadot, 2006).”

“The knowledge of media-specific impacts on the quality of communication and, building on that, the ability to exert influence on others via electronic media is an important part of media competencies (Elron and Vigoda, 2003; Elron and Vigoda-Gadot, 2006).”

“With a view to career advancement some authors have pointed out that micro-political influence attempts cannot be carried out as an overt act in order to be effective (Elron and Vigoda-Gadot, 2006).”