Virtual Work Research: Crossing Boundaries

Virtual work research has grown significantly and, over time, attracted scholars from diverse disciplines. While this has brought multiple perspectives, it has also brought the risk of segmentation into disparate clusters of research (e.g., virtual teams, telework). We used co-citation analysis to map network data and the development of virtual work research clusters for the past 20 years. We find some coalescing of research clusters, but also a separation into three primary clusters: virtual teamwork, telework and computer-mediated communication. Our panelists represent these distinct domains. Consistent with the conference theme, 'At the interface', the purpose of this panel symposium is to advance virtual work scholarship by identifying opportunities to bridge the boundaries between the research clusters described above in order to better leverage and integrate research from different domains. With this, we hope to identify future research opportunities cutting across the domains. This will be a highly...