Mapping the virtual team research field

The first approach uses scientific mapping associated with co-word analysis. It is applied to recent academic research findings, and, to academic journals concerned with virtual teams (by selecting appropriate key words). The building of clusters, and their relationships with each other, leads to a strategic diagram showing the centrality and density of the main topics, issuing from the academic researchers. The second approach analyzes the main ideas, theories and themes contained in the prior books on virtual teams. Our findings enable the update of the input/process/output model proposed by Martins et al. (2004) a decade ago.