Section 1: Make-up of virtual teams -- Virtual teams as sociotechnical systems -- Effective virtual teamwork: a socio-cognitive and motivational -- Understanding composition and conflict in virtual teams -- Section 2: Leading virtual teams -- Leading from afar: strategies for effectively leading virtual -- Creating positive attitudes in virtual team members -- Trust in virtual teams -- Section 3: Communication in virtual teams -- Newcomer assimilation in virtual team socialization -- Negotiating meaning in virtual teams: context, roles and computer-mediated communication in college classrooms -- The strategic use of "distance" among virtual team members: a multidimensional communication model -- How hard can it be to communicate? Communication mode and performance in collaborative R & D projects -- Technology and virtual teams -- Section 4: Effective uses of virtual teams -- Virtual teams and their search for creativity -- Virtual teams in an executive education training program -- Motivational antecedents, constituents, and consequents of virtual community identity -- A model for the analysis of virtual teams