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What is Creativity-Relevant Skills

Chapter 75
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Domain-relevant skills are attributes such as factual knowledge and skills. These attributes affect an individual’s performance in a given field of knowledge. Creativity- relevant skills include a person’s cognitive style that facilitates coping with complexity and breaking one’s mental set.
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Exploring Environmental Factors in Virtual Teams
Teresa Torres-Coronas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch075
Abstract
In today’s competitive business world, global competition forces companies to continually seek ways of improving their products/services. The hypercompetitive business environment has been the catalysts for new organizational forms—the virtual organization and its smaller version the virtual team (Jarvenpaa & Ives, 1994). The advent of new communication technologies has given organizations an opportunity to bring together their distributed workforce. The creation of distributed teams makes possible the incorporation of a wide range of both individual knowledge and expertise into a collective body of knowledge needed to conduct effective group problem-solving activities.
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