Predicting leadership emergence in global virtual teams
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Vasyl Taras, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Objective: This study examines the individual factors that predict whether individuals willemerge as leaders in global virtual teams, which often lack a more formal leadership structure.Research Design & Methods: We focus on emotional intelligence (EQ) and cultural intelligence(CQ) as two contemporary concepts that are of key relevance to leadership success. Building onsocioanalytic theory, we hypothesize that individuals with higher levels of EQ and CQ have ahigher probability of emerging as team leaders. We test the hypotheses on a sample of 415 teamscomprised of 1 102 individuals who participated in a virtual international collaboration project.Using structural equation modeling, the results reveal that individuals with higher CQ were morelikely to emerge as leadersFindings: Our findings did not support the relevance of EQ. In addition, individual factors suchas English proficiency, a higher age, and a lower power distance were also associated withleadership emergence.Implications & Recommendations: The study identified the gap in the literature regarding EQand CQ in the context of leadership emergence. The results demonstrate that individuals withhigh CQ and high EQ that may have beneficial effects on the team and its outcomes do notautomatically emerge as team leaders. We recommend that managers carefully consider whichprojects and tasks they will leave the leadership structure to emerge more informally.Contribution & Value Added: The key contribution and value added of this study is theinvestigation of the role of CQ and EQ with leadership emergence in global virtual teams (GVT),through the creation of a leadership emergence model building on socio-analytic theory.
Predicting leadership emergence in global virtual teams
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Created on 12/19/2023
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 11(3)
- Language: English
- Date: 2023
- Keywords
- leadership emergence, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, global virtual
intelligence, PLS-SEM