Review Article

Virtual Teams: A Smart Literature Review of Four Decades of Research

Table 3

Seminal papers of each topic.

(0) Student learning and education
Erez et al. [58] {17.5}, Taras et al. [59] {14.4}, Kolm et al. [60] {12.0}, Sjølie et al. [61] {10.0}, and Kim et al. [62] {8.2}

(1) Communication
Opdenakker [63] {30.6}, Montoya-Weiss et al. [64] {26.0}, Marlow et al. [65] {19.0}, Warkentin et al. [66] {17.0}, and Blanchard [67] {14.3}

(2) Leadership
Cortellazzo et al. [68] {46.6}, Hoch & Kozlowski [69] {36.1}, Bell & Kozlowski [70] {34.0}, Newman & Ford [71] {31.0}, and Kirkman et al. [72] {29.4}

(3) Global and cultural diversity
Maznevski & Chudoba [73] {50.3}, Hinds & Mortensen [74] {39.6}, Shachaf [75] {20.1}, Jimenez et al. [76] {20.0}, and Klitmøller & Lauring [77] {16.6}

(4) Performance
Powell et al. [78] {45.4}, Raghuram et al. [79] {38.2}, Townsend et al. [80] {28.2}, Chamakiotis et al. [9] {20.0} ★COVID, and Whillans et al. [10] {16.7}

(5) Trust
Jarvenpaa & Leidner [81] {74.0}, Jarvenpaa et al. [82] {51.5}, Mcknight et al. [83] {45.8}, Jarvenpaa et al. [84] {27.2}, and Robert et al. [85] {22.1}

(6) Product design
Brandt et al. [86] {10.3}, El-Diraby et al. [87] {7.6}, and Ouertani et al. [88] {4.7}

(7) Patient care
Weller et al. [89] {40.6}, Block et al. [90] {18.6}, and Bhatt et al. [91] {10.0}

(8) Global software development
Sarker et al. [92] {9.3}, Ramasubbu et al. [93] {8.3}, and Portillo-Rodríguez et al. [94] {7.9}

(9) Collaboration
Patel et al. [95] {16.6}, Sarker & Sahay [96] {12.9}, and Malhotra et al. [97] {12.4}

(10) Knowledge sharing and transfer
Griffith et al. [98] {28.2}, Alavi & Tiwana [99] {18.1}, and Olaisen & Revang [100] {12.7}

(11) Agile development
Paasivaara et al. [101] {15.7}, Sarker & Sarker S [102] {14.7}, and Alsaqaf et al. [103] {11.4}

(12) Construction project management
Oraee et al. [104] {28.8}, Daim et al. [105] {15.8}, and Lee-Kelley & Sankey [106] {9.9}

(13) Agent and robot
Shim et al. [107] {44.6} and Murphy [108] {26.2}

(14) Creativity
Leenders et al. [109] {18.7} and Nemiro [110] {4.4}

(15) Social capital and knowledge sharing
Robert et al. [111] {19.6} and Cummings & Dennis [112] {10.8}