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Use of Technology and Virtual Communication via Global Virtual Teams at Arnhem Business School

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Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Society (AHFE 2018)

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Numerous educational institutions made efforts to provide their students opportunities to benefit from cross-cultural experiences in order to take advantages of multicultural and international interactions [1,2,3,4]. This study is looking at the specific challenge that is represented by the selection and use of the appropriate technology for Global Virtual Team (GVT) and virtual communication. This specific study evaluates the impact of GVT based experiential learning in business education at Arnhem Business School, the Netherlands. It tries to identify the major challenges global virtual teams face and existing frameworks for successful global virtual teams. It provides also evidence for the usefulness of GVT-based approaches and facilitates a better understanding of the challenges (use of technology and virtual communication in particular) and learning opportunities in using this type of experiential learning activity at Arnhem Business School.

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  1. HAN University of Applied Sciences, Ruitenberglaan 31, 6826 CC, Arnhem, The Netherlands

    Florentin Popescu & Robert Warmenhoven

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  1. School of Technology and Innovations, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

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  2. Institute of Maritime Operations, University College of Southeast Norway, Borre, Norway

    Salman Nazir

  3. Hungarian-Netherlands School of Educational Management, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

    Tibor Barath

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Popescu, F., Warmenhoven, R. (2019). Use of Technology and Virtual Communication via Global Virtual Teams at Arnhem Business School. In: Kantola, J.I., Nazir, S., Barath, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Society. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 783. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94709-9_24

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