Exploring Virtuality Within and Beyond Organizations

Social, Global and Local Dimensions
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-349-29940-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

In recent years, there has been much interest in the 'virtual' –teams, organizations and communities –in management research and practice. As technology and social practices change we have more opportunity to experience different forms of virtuality, and in the process our understanding and conception of virtuality changes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panteli, N.

Chiasson, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Rethinking Virtuality: N.Panteli& M.Chiasson

PART I: VIRTUALITY WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS

Socialization in a Global Context: Lessons from Dispersed Teams; I.Oshri, J.Kotlarsky& L.Willcocks

Shared Communication Practices and Mental Models in the Virtual Work Environment; K.M.Chudoba& M.Watson-Manheim

Building Virtual Cooperation: Guidelines for Effective Performance; V.Weems-Landingham

Virtuality in Organizational Team Environments: Concept, Measurement and Effects in the Context of Sustainable Management; C.Schmidt, B.K.Temple, A.McCready, J.Newman& S.C.Kinzler

Regulated and Emergent Identifications in Virtual Organization; L.Yan

Reconciling Visions and Realities of Virtual Working: Findings from the UK Chemicals Industry; P.Dunning Lewis & M.Katsorchi-Hayes

Virtuality of Teams: Extending Boundaries and Discontinuities; K.Dixon& N.Panteli

PART II: VIRTUALITY BEYOND ORGANIZATIONS

Building Social Identity through Blogging; P.Pluempavarn& N.Panteli

Playing Together in Cyberspace: Collective Action and Shared Meaning Constitution in Virtual Worlds; A.Papargyris & A.Poulymenakou

Luminal Possibilities for the Study of Virtual Systems, Global Effects and Local Practices; M.Chiasson

Virtuality: Time, Space, Consciousness and a Second Life; D.Kreps

TheVirtual and Virtuality:Toward Dialogues of Transdisciplinarity; J.Hunsinger

Is Everything Virtuality? Exploring the Boundaries of the Topics; M.Chiasson& N.Panteli

Über Autor(innen)

NIKI PANTELI is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Director for the Centre for Information Management at the University of Bath, UK and the Chair of the IFIP W.G. 9.5 'Virtuality& Society'.

MIKE CHIASSON is currently a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University's Management School, in the Department of Management Science. Before joining Lancaster University, he was an Associate Professor in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary from 1999 to 2006, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.