He Yining, Cheng Cong, Wang Limin
School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Shuren University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
PLoS One. 2025 Sep 12;20(9):e0331500. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0331500. eCollection 2025.
Together with unstoppable trend of business going digitally global in recent years and the worldwide spread-out of COVID-19 since 2020, virtual teams have gradually garnered considerable attention in academia. Yet, the question of how to boost virtual team effectiveness remains underexplored. This study adopts a leadership perspective to examine the role of E-leadership in enhancing virtual team effectiveness. Gathered survey data from 74 virtual teams of Chinese manufacturing firms and employed an integrated fsQCA and NCA method, this study unravels two primary results. First, Fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) identified the sufficient combinations of E-leadership dimensions to promote virtual team effectiveness. Second, Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) specifies the quantitative thresholds a E-leadership dimension's value must be to render different levels of virtual team effectiveness. The conclusions of this research offer valuable insights into the theoretical and managerial implications of E-leadership in virtual teams.
近年来，随着商业数字化全球发展的不可阻挡趋势以及自2020年以来新冠疫情在全球的蔓延，虚拟团队逐渐在学术界获得了相当多的关注。然而，如何提高虚拟团队效能的问题仍未得到充分探索。本研究采用领导力视角来考察电子领导力在提升虚拟团队效能中的作用。本研究收集了来自中国制造业企业74个虚拟团队的调查数据，并采用整合的模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）和必要条件分析（NCA）方法，得出了两个主要结果。第一，模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）确定了电子领导力维度促进虚拟团队效能的充分组合。第二，必要条件分析（NCA）明确了电子领导力维度的值必须达到的定量阈值，以实现不同水平的虚拟团队效能。本研究的结论为电子领导力在虚拟团队中的理论和管理意义提供了有价值的见解。
