@inproceedings{bd4eccb044424f149488cf20f92efcf4,
title = "In-group/out-group effects in distributed teams: An experimental simulation",
abstract = "Modern workplaces often bring together virtual teams where some members are collocated, and some participate remotely. We are using a simulation game to study collaborations of 10-person groups, with five collocated members and five isolates (simulated 'telecommuters'). Individual players in this game buy and sell 'shapes' from each other in order to form strings of shapes, where strings represent joint projects, and each individual players' shapes represent their unique skills. We found that the collocated people formed an in-group, excluding the isolates. But, surprisingly, the isolates also formed an in-group, mainly because the collocated people ignored them and they responded to each other.",
keywords = "Collocation, Computer-mediated communication, Distant collaboration, Distributed group work, Telecommuting, Telework, Virtual teams",
author = "Nathan Bos and Shami, \{N. Sadat\} and Olson, \{Judith S.\} and Arik Cheshin and Ning Nan",
year = "2004",
month = nov,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1145/1031607.1031679",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "429--436",
booktitle = "Computer Supported Cooperative Work - Conference Proceedings, CSCW 2004",
address = "United States",
note = "2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2004 ; Conference date: 06-11-2004 Through 10-11-2004",
}