Overview
- Most up-to-date look at virtuality and virtualization
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT, volume 236)
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Table of contents (31 papers)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Keynotes
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Frameworks for Understanding Virtuality and Virtualization
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Process Issues to Achieve Virtualization
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Group Processes in Virtual Teams
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Keywords
About this book
In today's rapidly changing global work environment, all workers experience increased organizational complexity. Companies are functionally distributed, many across the globe. Intense competition for markets and margins makes adaptiveness and innovation imperative. Information and communication technologies are pervasive and fundamental infrastructures, their use deeply integrated into work processes. Workers collaborate electronically with co-workers or with employees of other companies. New boundaries of time, space, business unit, culture, company partnerships, and software tools are driving the adoption of novel organizational forms. On a macro level, these changes have started to reshape society.
This book considers possible frameworks for understanding virtuality and virtualization; ways of analyzing virtual work in terms of work processes; group processes within virtual teams; the role of knowledge in virtual settings and other implications of the role of fiction in structuring virtuality.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtuality and Virtualization
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Groups 8.2 on Information Systems and Organizations and 9.5 on Virtuality and Society, July 29-31, 2007, Portland, Oregon, USA
Editors: Kevin Crowston, Sandra Sieber, Eleanor Wynn
Series Title: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73025-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-73024-0Published: 24 July 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4454-2Published: 29 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-73025-7Published: 05 October 2007
Series ISSN: 1868-4238
Series E-ISSN: 1868-422X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 404
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Computers and Society, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences