Leadership Effectiveness in Global Virtual Teams

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mation systems consulting and has also held positions as director of management information systems and operations manager for private sector firms. Professor Kayworth’s current research interest centers on the management of information tech-nology in organizations and the effects of information technology (IT) infrastructure and its development within organizations. He has conducted field-based research ad-dressing the use and effectiveness of corporate IT standards in contemporary firms. Professor Kayworth’s work has been published in the proceedings of the Interna-tional Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), European Management Journal, and Journal of Information Technology Management, as well as in numerous confer-ence proceedings. DOROTHY E. LEIDNER is an Associate Professor of eBusiness at Texas Christian Uni-versity in Ft. Worth, Texas. She is on leave of absence from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Dr. Leidner received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin, from where she also obtained her MBA and BA. She has been on the faculty at Baylor University and has been a visiting professor at the Instituto