Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The student is able to
- explain the relevant trends and issues to be considered in distributed virtual organizations and virtual teams in international business context.
- develop a strategic approach to developing a virtual organization or virtual team in an international business context.
- recommend solutions that could be implemented in actualizing the chosen strategy to create the virtual organizations international business context and evaluating the associated risks.

Implementation and methods of teaching

Virtual
Learning package is virtual and therefore the contact days are supportive of the learning materials.
Virtual meeting are needed.
The course is linked to the course Virtual Leadership.
This course will approach the problem space from and academic publication perspective and aims at producing an academic publication as the course output.

Timing and attendance

This virtual course is tied to Virtual Leadership. You need to take both courses as the module.
Reading, auditory and/or video.
See reppu.
Virtual Contact Days:
2.10.2020, @ 9.15 - 16.00 Virtual Teams
13.11.2020 @ 9.15 - 16.00 both Virtual Leadership and Virtual Teams
4.12.2020 @ 9.15 - 16.00 both Virtual Leadership and Virtual Teams

Learning material and recommended literature

Self study, virtual team project, and internet

Alternative completion methods

None

Exam retakes

None

Learning environment

Reading, auditory and/or video.
See reppu.
This course is tied to Virtual Leadership. You need to take both courses as the module.
Reading, auditory and/or video.
See reppu.
Virtual Contact Days:
2.10.2020, @ 9.15 - 16.00 Virtual Teams
13.11.2020 @ 9.15 - 16.00 both Virtual Leadership and Virtual Teams
4.12.2020 @ 9.15 - 16.00 both Virtual Leadership and Virtual Teams

Student time use and work load

Document file, 5 ECTS,

Contents

- explain the relevant trends and issues to be considered in distributed virtual organizations and virtual teams in international business context.
- develop a strategic approach to developing a virtual organization or virtual team in an international business context. Concepts such as virtual teams in projects, working in and managing co-creation opportunities, managing agendas in collaborative networks, understanding the difference between intentional and spontaneous network formation and understanding organizational intelligence and multicultural issues in virtual spaces.
- recommend solutions that could be implemented in actualizing the chosen strategy to create the virtual organizations international business context and evaluating the associated risks.

Additional information for students: previous knowledge etc.

This course is tied to Virtual Leadership. You need to take both courses as the module.

The assignment is to work with micro team of three to assess, develop and create a virtual organization / space. The concept is to produce an approach to developing the virtual organization and the related processes. You should determine which are the relative stakeholders to this space and how would they need to be included to co-create a useful commercially viable virtual platform. Please determine the relevant touch points and consider how to extend your solution so that it is scalable. Your reader is a firm that would like to focus on the potential for creating a commercially viable virtual network /platform comprised of the potential ideas generated by this group.

The virtual leadership element is to create drive this process and the virtual team perspective is to understand what it would take to implement it over the next three years.

The Virtual Leadership course output is a commercially viable virtual business concept to be tested.

The Virtual Teams course output is an individual academic publication working through a selected implementation challenge that a virtual team would face when implementing this commercial space. We are trying to build a package that can be published.

Assessment criteria

Document files 100%

Assessment scale

1-5

Failed (0)

Failing to achieve the level of one.
Any form of plagiarism, coping other people’s work or such silliness, is an automatic fail. Free riders will either have their grade reduced, have to form their own group, or fail.

Assessment criteria: level 1 (assessment scale 1–5)

Explain the relevant trends and issues to be considered in distributed virtual organizations and virtual teams in international business context and critically evaluate the issues of navigating in a distributed virtual organization.

Assessment criteria: level 3 (assessment scale 1–5)

Develop a strategic approach to developing a virtual organization or virtual team in an international business context. Concepts such as virtual teams in projects, working in and managing co-creation opportunities, managing agendas in collaborative networks, understanding the difference between intentional and spontaneous network formation and understanding organizational intelligence and multicultural issues in virtual spaces.

Assessment criteria: level 5 (assessment scale 1–5)

Recommend solutions that could be implemented in actualizing the chosen strategy to create the virtual organizations international business context and evaluate the associated risks.