Business Organizations and Collaborative Web: Practices, Strategies and Patterns (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Kamna Malik, Praveen K. Choudhary

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With the globalization of economies and growth of information and communication technologies (ICT), collaboration has become the key to survival. Just like individuals and mankind, business organizations also depend on collaboration for survival and growth. The concept of departments, committees, teams, etc., which are so fundamental to any organizational structure, all point to the importance of collaboration. Business Organizations and Collaborative Web: Practices, Strategies and Patterns delves deeper into identifying specific business processes and their linkage with the collaborative Web, while understanding the related implications for individuals, organizations and society. This book identifies current practices and future possibilities of making the collaborative Web a tool for business. It also presents the opportunities and challenges confronting organizations in the light of such emerging trends and should prove to be a valuable asset to strategists, managers, academicians, researchers, and students in any area of business and management.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 14
Towards a Characterization of the Developmental Environment of Web Applications and its Business Implications......Page 20
Web 2.0......Page 37
Entrepreneurship and Growth in Knowledge Economy......Page 50
Collaborative Journalism......Page 67
Using Virtual Communities to Involve Users in E-Service Development......Page 80
Emerging Web Tools and Their Applications in Bioinformatics......Page 95
Collaborative Web for Natural Resources Industries......Page 109
Optimizing Collaborative E-Commerce Websites for Rural Production Using Multi Criteria Analysis......Page 121
Online Grocery Provision Resistance......Page 139
Applying Game Mechanisms to Idea Competitions......Page 163
Dynamic Co-opetitive Network Organization Supported by Multi Agent Architecture......Page 184
The Influence of Collaborative Web on Knowledge Management, Organizational Structure and Culture in Knowledge-Intensive Companies......Page 203
Virtual Reality and Identity Crisis......Page 221
Virtual Worlds for Collaborative Meetings......Page 240
Collaborative Virtual Business Events- Opportunities and Challenges......Page 264
Augment Your Business Reality with New Age Web Tools......Page 280
Compilation of References......Page 301
About the Contributors......Page 332
Index......Page 338