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Trust Evolvement in Hybrid Team Collaboration: A Longitudinal Case Study

Authors: Xusen Cheng, Guopeng Yin, Aida Azadegan, Gwendolyn Kolfschoten

Published in: Group Decision and Negotiation | Issue 2/2016

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Trust is referred to as a key facilitator in team collaboration as it is an important condition for information sharing. In this paper, we investigate factors associated with the establishment of trust in hybrid teams that collaborate virtually as well as face-to-face. Furthermore, we deliver an instrument to understand trust development in teams. We describe exploratory results of the instrument by running experiments with teams of collaborating students in China and Netherlands. Quantitative and qualitative analysis has been used to analyze these data. Finally, in the analysis of the experiments we describe initial patterns of trust development in groups from both individual and group perspectives, in two different cultural contexts.

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Title: Trust Evolvement in Hybrid Team Collaboration: A Longitudinal Case Study
Authors: Xusen Cheng
Guopeng Yin
Aida Azadegan
Gwendolyn Kolfschoten
Publication date: 14-05-2015
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Group Decision and Negotiation / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0926-2644
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9907
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-015-9442-x

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