Team collaboration in virtual worlds : results from a Delphi study

Ikram Bououd (1) , Imed Boughzala (1) , Benjamin Wigert (2) , Gert-Jan de Vreede (2, 3)

1 IMT-BS - DSI - Département Systèmes d'Information
2 University of Nebraska Omaha
3 Institute of Neuroscience

This study provides a taxonomy of salient opportunities and challenges yielded by collaboration in Virtual Worlds (VWs). A Delphi method is used to gather graduate management students' opinions resulting from a SWOT analysis of team collaboration in VWs. This study produced an ordered list of important adoption and entry issues to consider when collaborating in VWs. Additional factors were identified through a discussion of these issues. Based on our findings, we further discuss the relevance and implications of opportunities and challenges associated with collaboration in VWs.

Mots clés: Collaboration; Virtual teams; Virtual Worlds; Delphi; Exploratory study

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Ikram Bououd, Imed Boughzala, Benjamin Wigert, Gert-Jan de Vreede. Team collaboration in virtual worlds : results from a Delphi study. GDN '12 : The 12th international annual meeting of the Group Decision and Negotiation conference, May 2012, Recife, Brazil. pp.44 - 55. ⟨hal-02408814⟩