  The use of virtual teams by organisations has grown tremendously as a
strategic response to COVID-19. However, the concept of virtual teams is not
something new, with many businesses over the past three decades gradually
incorporating virtual and/or dispersed teams into their processes. Research on
virtual teams has followed that of co-located face-to-face teams through lenses
such as trust, communication, teamwork, leadership and collaboration. This
paper introduces a new paradigm for examining the development of virtual teams,
arguably one that would facilitate the consideration of technology as part of a
virtual team rather than simply as an alternate to face-to-face teams. That is,
viewing the development of virtual teams with embedded technology within an
organisation through an innovation framework.
