Virtual Teams across National Borders: An Overview

The chapter represents an overview of the issues concerning virtual teams across national borders. Starting with defining of the term virtual team, the chapter refers to the virtualness and its interpretations. Reference is made to the conditions under which virtual team are operational as well as teams geographical spread, The chapter also addresses the key issues and main considerations describing to virtual teams. Thus, trust in reference to virtual teams has been found of key importance for their successful functioning in extant literature. The recent developments of virtual teams across national borders are associated with COVID-19 pandemic that played the role of a major accelerator of the speed pf their implementation. Further, the chapter makes a brief review of the chapters included in the book.