How does a team use a computer-mediated technology to share and reuse knowledge when the team is inter …-organizational and virtual, when the team must compete for the attention of team members with collocated teams, and when the task is the … creation of a completely new innovation? From a review of the literature on knowledge sharing and reuse using collaborative …

diversity. Does this trend affect innovation? I use patent data to disentangle these two sources of knowledge diversity in teams … and compare their effects on innovation output in a large panel of firms. Both diversity types increase innovation at the … optimal team composition. An analysis using inventor deaths to induce exogenous variation in team composition confirms the …

some of the barriers to effective virtual team working and demonstrates the critical importance of trust and social bonding … to the functioning of such teams. It reports on the use of a 'Community of Practice' in a virtual team and argues that … we live and the electronic world of virtual team working …