Emergence of virtual teams

Globalization has become a current topic across the world and influenced international and business relationships. Virtual teams have been considered as a tool used as a means to benefit from the economic changes across the world. Conventional ways of working evolve into processes becoming gradually more virtual. Advances in technology support change and this largely contributes to a progression: pushing the industrial environment towards a digital world. As a result, organizational infrastructure, working pace, along with managerial approaches, and behaviours have also changed, which necessitates theinternational human resources management (IHRM) function to adapt its own human resources (HR) approach.