Leadership Role Effectiveness as a Mediator of Team Performance in New Product Development Virtual Teams

Despite the wide usage of globally dispersed virtual teams (VT), there has been relatively little research on how leadership affects team performance, particularly with new product development teams in a global VT setting. To test Quinn's (1988) Behavioral Complexity in Leadership Theory, a research model of VT leadership was developed and evaluated with confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling for a unique sample of 19...