TY - CONF T1 - Team dynamics in long-standing technology-supported virtual teams T2 - Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Organizational Behaviour Division Y1 - 2012 A1 - Misiolek, Nora A1 - Kevin Crowston A1 - Joshua Seymour JF - Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Organizational Behaviour Division CY - Boston, MA ER - TY - Generic T1 - Leadership in self-managing virtual teams Y1 - 2010 A1 - Kevin Crowston A1 - Heckman, Robert A1 - Misiolek, Nora AB - In this paper, we present a theory of leadership in self-managing virtual teams. We are particularly interested in self-managing virtual teams because self-management seems to be a common phenomenon in teams that interact primarily through information technology (so-called virtual teams). Building on leadership theory and structuration theory, the theory describes leadership as a process that results in the reinforcement, creation and evolution of ongoing structures and distinguishes between two types of leadership. We identify first-order leadership as leadership that works within and reinforces existing structures to elicit and guide group contributions. We define second-order leadership as behavior that effects changes in the structure that guides group action. We argue that second-order leadership is enabled by first-order leadership, is therefore action embedded, and is grounded in processes that define the social identity of the team. We propose that effective self-managing virtual teams will exhibit a paradoxical combination of shared, distributed first-order leadership complemented by strong, concentrated, and centralized second-order leadership. We conclude by presenting a set of research questions and suggestions for future research. PB - Syracuse University School of Information Studies ER - TY - Generic T1 - Emergent leadership in self-organizing virtual teams (Poster) Y1 - 2007 A1 - Heckman, Robert A1 - Kevin Crowston A1 - Misiolek, Nora A1 - Eseryel, U. Yeliz KW - FLOSS KW - Leadership JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) CY - Montréal, Québec, Canada, 9–12 Dec ER - TY - Generic T1 - A structurational perspective on leadership in virtual teams T2 - Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 8.2/9.5 Working Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization Y1 - 2007 A1 - Heckman, Robert A1 - Kevin Crowston A1 - Misiolek, Nora ED - Kevin Crowston ED - Seiber, Sandra KW - FLOSS KW - Leadership AB - Building on behavioural leadership theory and structuration theory, we present a two-order theory of leadership. It describes four classes of first-order leadership behaviours (task coordination, substantive task contribution, group maintenance and boundary spanning) and defines second-order leadership as behaviour that influences changes in the structure that guides group action. We argue that second-order leadership is enabled by first-order leadership and is therefore action embedded and grounded in processes that define the social identity of the group. We propose that effective virtual teams will exhibit a paradoxical combination of shared, distributed first-order leadership complemented by strong, concentrated, and centralized second-order leadership. We conclude by suggesting future research that might be conducted to test and further elaborate our theory. JF - Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 8.2/9.5 Working Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization PB - Springer CY - Portland, OR ER -