<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.BalloonTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text";
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal">AIS Journal Club Webinar Series - Spring 2015<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Session # 4 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hype or Help? A Longitudinal Field Study of Virtual World Use for Team Collaboration<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, March 11 at 1 p.m. EST <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Register: <a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/6488832006793066498">
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/6488832006793066498</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">presented by Dr. Viswanath Venkatesh, University of Arkansas and Dr. Jaime Windeler, University of Cincinnati<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Learning Objectives:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1. Understand how dispositional factors, both general and IT-specific, drive technology use in virtual teams<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2. Understand how time and technology type impact the relationship between disposition and technology use in virtual teams<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3. Understand the downstream implications of disposition, time, and availability of a virtual world system for cohesion and performance in virtual teams.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About the Research<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Despite increasing organizational interest and investment in virtual worlds (VWs), there is a lack of research on the benefits of VWs. When and how does the use of VW systems engender better organizational outcomes than traditional collaborative
technologies? This paper investigates the value of VWs for team collaboration. Team collaboration is particularly relevant in studying VWs given the rich interactive nature of VWs and an increasing organizational reliance on virtual teamwork.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">To understand the value of VW use for team collaboration, we examine the relationship between a team's disposition toward IT, their general disposition (personality) and VW use in influencing team cohesion and performance. We conducted
a field study that compares two collaborative technology systems - one that is based on a traditional desktop metaphor and one that is grounded in the principles of a virtual world. We tracked the use of the systems for one year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We analyzed data at the team level and the results generally support our model, with agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, openness, and computer self-efficacy interacting with time and technology type to positively influence
team technology use. We also found that the use of the virtual world system positively influenced the relationship between technology use and team cohesion, which, in turn, predicts team performance. The model explains 57 percent, 21 percent, and 24 percent
of the variance in team technology use, team cohesion, and team performance, respectively.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About the Authors<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Viswanath Venkatesh is a Distinguished Professor and the first holder of the George and Boyce Billingsley Chair in Information Systems at the Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas. His research focuses on understanding diffusion
of technology in organizations and society. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jaime Windeler is an assistant professor of Operations, Business Analytics and Information Systems at the University of Cincinnati. She earned her MS in Information Systems at Northern Kentucky University and her PhD from the Sam M. Walton
College of Business at the University of Arkansas.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">About AIS:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AIS Members attend webinars free as a benefit of membership. Members of student chapters also receive free registration. Cost to attend as a non-member is $25. If you are not an AIS member you will receive an email with payment instructions
after registering. If you indicated an interest in joining, you'll be contacted with membership details.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you have any questions about attending or sponsoring this webinar series, please contact Rachel Daeger at rachel@aisnet.org.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Journal Clubs were established more than 150 years ago for professors and students to share and discuss current research. Today, this same educational exchange can take place worldwide through online webinars.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D">It is our pleasure to serve you. Click
<a href="http://s.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB228C87J7BHB?p=WEB228C87J7BHB"><span style="color:blue">here</span></a> to tell us how we did.
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr style="height:114.2pt">
<td width="246" valign="top" style="width:152.55pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:114.2pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><img border="0" width="176" height="176" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D05B1E.2ADE42A0"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
</td>
<td width="246" valign="top" style="width:152.55pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:114.2pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">RACHEL DAEGER, CAE</span></b><b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">AIS Journal Club<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#595959">35 Broad Street, Suite 917<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#595959">Atlanta, GA 30303, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#595959"><a href="mailto:rachel@aisnet.org"><span style="color:blue">rachel@aisnet.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#595959">Skype: rachel.daeger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#595959">+1 317.328.4636<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://start.aisnet.org/"><span style="color:blue">http://start.aisnet.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>