The Impact of Team Empowerment on Virtual Team Performance: The Moderating Role of Face-to-Face Interaction.

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We investigated the relationship between team empowerment and virtual team performance and the moderating role of the extent of face-to-face interaction using 35 sales and service virtual teams in a high-technology organization.Team empowerment was positively related to two independent assessments of virtual team performanceprocess improvement and customer satisfaction.Further, the number of face-to-face meetings moderated the relationship between team empowerment and process improvement: team empowerment was a stronger predictor for teams that met face-toface less, rather than more, frequently. 2004