Abstract
Self-managed student teams depend on collaboration systems to perform academic tasks. Given that students work remotely and unsupervised, the development of processes, team capacities, and interdependencies among students are driven by individual expertise. Therefore, diverse heterogeneous behaviors coexist within teams. In autonomous dispersed student teams, students need to self-align in their individual practices and behaviors when they work together. This includes developing routines to identify, assimilate, transform, and use knowledge, and interrelate with other students’ knowledge. Based on the Media Synchronicity Theory, we propose a model to study the effects of team communication and team innovative use diversity on team absorptive capacity in self-managed student teams. We conducted a survey with 87 students in 30 teams. The findings reveal that communication is an important predictor of the team´s knowledge connectedness and learning capability. Additionally, team innovative use diversity types differently affect team absorptive capacity.
Recommended Citation
Martins, Patricia and Picoto, Winnie, "Absorptive Capacity in Remote Work: A Study of Self-Managed Student Teams" (2025). CAPSI 2025 Proceedings. 16.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/capsi2025/16