Introduction
Organizations continue to use virtual teams to leverage individual expertise that is difficult to arrange in a colocated environment. An individual's participation in a virtual team influences the team's performance outcomes, yet deep knowledge about an individual's communication behaviors within a virtual team is limited. Further, in a virtual team, an individual's communication is mediated by computing technologies. The nature of the interaction may have unintended and previously unidentified effects on individual participation and performance in a virtual team. Managers, as professional communicators, need to understand the dynamics of such individual influences upon an individual's virtual team participation and performance.