Extending Construal Level Theory to Distributed Teams: Perception and Evaluation of Distant Others

Extending Construal Level Theory to Distributed Teams: Perception and Evaluation of Distant Others

Building on prior research on distributed teams that has identified physical and temporal distance as impediments to collaboration and relationship development, this paper explores how and why we treat geographically distant others differently from those who are proximal. According to construal leve...

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Main Authors: Wilson, Jeanne, Crisp, Brad, Mortensen, Mark
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011
Subjects:
construal level theory
collaboration
distributed teams
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66260

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