%0 Conference Paper %B Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Organizational Behaviour Division %D 2012 %T Team dynamics in long-standing technology-supported virtual teams %A Misiolek, Nora %A Kevin Crowston %A Joshua Seymour %B Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Organizational Behaviour Division %C Boston, MA %8 8/2012 %> https://crowston.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/ACADEMY%20PAPER%20FINAL.pdf %0 Generic %D 2010 %T Leadership in self-managing virtual teams %A Kevin Crowston %A Heckman, Robert %A Misiolek, Nora %X 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. %I Syracuse University School of Information Studies %8 12/2010 %> https://crowston.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/JOB%20REVISED%20to%20distribute.pdf %0 Generic %D 2007 %T Emergent leadership in self-organizing virtual teams (Poster) %A Heckman, Robert %A Kevin Crowston %A Misiolek, Nora %A Eseryel, U. Yeliz %K FLOSS %K Leadership %B Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) %C Montréal, Québec, Canada, 9–12 Dec %> https://crowston.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/20081204%20ICIS%20Poster_v.5.1.pdf %0 Conference Proceedings %B Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 8.2/9.5 Working Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization %D 2007 %T A structurational perspective on leadership in virtual teams %A Heckman, Robert %A Kevin Crowston %A Misiolek, Nora %E Kevin Crowston %E Seiber, Sandra %K FLOSS %K Leadership %X 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. %B Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 8.2/9.5 Working Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization %I Springer %C Portland, OR %P 151–168 %G eng %R 10.1007/978-0-387-73025-7_12 %> https://crowston.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/AStructurationalPerspectiveOnLeadership.pdf