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Edwards, A. and Wilson J. (2014). Implementing Virtual Teams. Gower Publishing,Oxon, GBR. (Read Part I on When We Should Use Virtual Teams and Part II WhatWe Need to Know When Implementing Virtual Teams.) Berry, G. (2011). Enhancing effectiveness of Virtual Teams, Journal of BusinessCommunications, 186206. Sembdner, Stephan (2011). Success Factors of Virtual Teams in the Conflict ofCrossCultural Team Structures, Diplomica Verlag: Hamburg Germany. (ReadChapter 2 and 3). Here is a great video full of ideas and recommendations, usually claiming to havebeen derived from practice but not always carefully documented as such.See the discussion of challenges of working virtually in a team. londonessays.com (You aren’t expected to read every item in all of these, but you ought to review a fairsample of the material in order to get a good idea of the kinds of advice propositions being offered.) Your task is to identify 3 to 5 significant questions regarding the managementof virtual teams that relate to “practice wisdom” advice found in the readings,that you believe are sufficiently important that good quality research might helpresolve their validity. Trivial questions don’t really warrant research, because theresearch costs money and other resources that are in scarce supply. We want toreserve our research resources to address those questions that really seemimportant to practice—particularly issues where the practice wisdom might bedivided, with one group saying one set of things and one group another, or wherethere is

no advice available at all. So what you’re looking for in the blogs aresituations where advice seems to contradict other advice, or where advice givenseems to contradict your own intuition or common sense, or otherwise whereambiguity seems to exist. The two systematic research studies will give you an ideaof how such research might be done. When you identify some topic of interest, you should be able to specify: The research question itself? what are we trying to find out? Why is this question interesting? Who might care what the results would be? Where might we do such a study? How might we carry it out? (Please note: You’renot being assessed here on the quality of your research expertise? just give us somegeneral ideas about how you think we might answer your question.) What would you expect the results to be? Any other thoughts or ideas you might have regarding this research issue. So your paper is to consist of your thoughts on these questions regarding each ofthe 3 to 5 issues that you have been able to identify from your perusal of thereadings of virtual teams. Thus, when you have read through the articles and related material, compose a 4–6 page critical analysis paper as outlined above, on the topic: Three to five significant ideas about the management of virtual teams that couldbe usefully assessed by conducting systematic organizational research    NEED AT LEAST 3 REFERENCES-FROM ABOVE AND YOUR OWN. IN-TEXT CITATIONS REQUIRED-MUST MATCH REFERENCES, APA FORMAT, AND LESS THAN 5% TURN IT IN SCORE!!!