Path to "Stardom" in Globally Distributed Teams: An Examination of a Knowledge-Centered Perspective Using Social Network Analysis

In response to a call from the research community to identify individuals who become "stars" in globally-distributed teams, this study takes a knowledge-centered view in identifying the core factors leading to "stardom" in such teams. It adopts a structural/relational approach consistent with the core principles of social network analysis in developing and empirically validating the research model. Data from US-Norway and US-Denmark distributed teams engaged in systems development provide support for most of the predictions