Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

Course image: Foxcroft Academy [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.

Figure 2: © Kimble, C., Alexis, B. and Li, B. (2000) Effective Virtual Teams through Communities of Practice, Strathclyde Business School Management Science Working Paper No. 2000/9, Strathclyde Business School, Department of Management Science.

Figure 3: © Lipnack, J. and Stamps, J. (2000) Virtual Teams: Reaching Across Space, Time, and Organizations with Technology, 2nd edn, New York, John Wiley and Sons.

Figure 4: © Katzenbach, J.R. and Smith, D.K. (1993) The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization, London, McGraw-Hill.

Table 1: © The Open University (2008) M865 Project Management, Unit 1 Project initiation, Figure 5.1, Milton Keynes, The Open University.

Table 3: © Fisher, K. and Fisher, M.D. (2001) The Distance Manager: A Hands-on Guide to Managing Off-site Employees and Virtual Teams, New York, McGraw-Hill.

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