Exploring Virtuality Within and beyond Organizations: Social, Global and Local Dimensions

✍ Scribed by Niki Panteli, Mike Chiasson (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 311
• Series: Technology, Work and Globalization
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Rethinking virtuality....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Socialization in a global context: Lessons from dispersed teams....Pages 21-54
Shared communication practices and mental models in the virtual work environment....Pages 55-72
Building virtual cooperation: Guidelines for effective performance....Pages 73-94
Virtuality in organizational team environments: Concept, measurement, and effects in the context of sustainable management....Pages 95-125
Regulated and emergent identifications: the case of a virtual organization....Pages 126-150
Reconciling visions and realities of virtual working: Findings from the UK chemicals industry....Pages 151-169
Virtuality of teams: Extending boundaries and discontinuities....Pages 170-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Building social identity through blogging....Pages 195-212
Playing together in cyberspace: Collective action and shared meaning constitution in virtual worlds....Pages 213-240
Luminal possibilities for the study of virtual systems, global effects, and local practices....Pages 241-253
Virtuality: time, space, consciousness, and a second life....Pages 254-268
The virtual and virtuality: Toward dialogues of transdisciplinarity....Pages 269-285
Is everything virtuality? Exploring the boundaries of the topics....Pages 286-291
Back Matter....Pages 293-294

✦ Subjects

International Business; Management; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Business Strategy/Leadership; Corporate Communication/Public Relations; International Economics