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Collaboration in the Digital Age

How Technology Enables Individuals, Teams and Businesses

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Editors:
  1. Kai Riemer

    1. Business Information Systems, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Stefan Schellhammer

    1. Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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  3. Michaela Meinert

    1. Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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  • Discusses collaboration at various levels of analysis: individuals, teams, organizations and markets
  • Includes worker, management and consumer perspectives
  • Provides a balance of research insights, practical lessons learned from case studies and opinion pieces from leading thinkers

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Collaboration in the Digital Age: Diverse, Relevant and Challenging

    • Kai Riemer, Stefan Schellhammer
    Pages 1-12

  3. Digital Work and Team Collaboration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Co-working Spaces, Collaborative Practices and Entrepreneurship

      • Nathalie Mitev, Francois-Xavier de Vaujany, Pierre Laniray, Amélie Bohas, Julie Fabbri
      Pages 15-43

    3. Joint Work and Information Sharing in the Modern Digital Workplace: How the Introduction of “Social” Features Shaped Enterprise Collaboration Systems

      • Petra Schubert
      Pages 45-59

    4. The Go-Betweens: Backstage Collaboration Among Community Managers in an Inter-organisational Enterprise Social Network

      • Kai Riemer, Ella Hafermalz
      Pages 61-88

    5. Social Motivation Consequences of Activity Awareness Practices in Virtual Teams: A Case Study and Experimental Confirmation

      • Russell Haines, Nadine Vehring, Malte Kramer
      Pages 89-119

    6. Discontinuities, Continuities, and Hidden Work in Virtual Collaboration

      • Mary Beth Watson-Manheim
      Pages 121-132

    7. A Coaching Style of Management and the Affective Structuration of Workplace Relations

      • Camilla Noonan, Séamas Kelly, Geoff Pelham
      Pages 133-156

  4. Digital Networks and Inter-Organisational Collaboration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157
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    2. Citizens’ Cooperation in the Reuse of Their Personal Data: The Case of Data Cooperatives in Healthcare

      • Joan Rodon Mòdol
      Pages 159-185

    3. Cooperatives in the Age of Sharing

      • Theresia Theurl, Eric Meyer
      Pages 187-205

    4. How Collaboration and Digitization Transform Large Project Business

      • Klaus Backhaus, Ulf König
      Pages 207-225

    5. The First (Beer) Living Lab: Learning to Sustain Network Collaboration for Digital Innovation

      • Frank Frößler, Boriana Rukanova, Stefan Klein, Allen Higgins, Yao-Hua Tan, Séamas Kelly
      Pages 227-247

    6. Living Infrastructure

      • Kai Reimers, Robert B. Johnston
      Pages 249-267

  5. Digital Commerce and Consumer Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-269
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    2. Consumer Search Patterns: Empirical Evidence, Competing Theories and Managerial Implications

      • Christopher P. Holland
      Pages 271-289

    3. A Tale of Two Cities: How High Streets Can Prevail in the Digital Age

      • Jörg Becker, Jan H. Betzing, Moritz von Hoffen, Marco Niemann
      Pages 291-307
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About this book

This book examines how digital technologies enable collaboration as a way for individuals, teams and businesses to connect, create value, and harness new opportunities. Digital technologies have brought the world closer together but also created new barriers and divides. While it is now possible to connect almost instantly and seamlessly across the globe, collaboration comes at a cost; it requires new skills and hidden ‘collaboration work’, and the need to renegotiate the fair distribution of value in multi-stakeholder network arrangements. Presenting state-of-the-art research, case studies, and leading voices in the field, the book provides academics and professionals with insights into the diverse powers of collaboration in the digital age, spanning collaboration among professionals, organisations, and consumers. It brings together contributions from scholars interested in the collaboration of teams, cooperatives, projects, and new cooperative systems, covering a range of sectors from the sharing economy, health care, large project businesses to public sector collaboration.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Business Information Systems, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Kai Riemer

  • Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Stefan Schellhammer, Michaela Meinert

About the editors

Kai Riemer is Professor of Information Technology and Organisation in the Discipline of Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney Business School. He has held positions with Münster University, Germany; University College Dublin, Ireland; and the University of Melbourne, Australia. Kai’s expertise and research interests span the areas of Social Networking, Technology Appropriation, Collaborative Systems, Digital Disruption and Innovation, and the Philosophy of Technology. Kai is a board member of the Journal of Information Technology, Electronic Markets, and the Business and Information Systems Engineering Journal; he has published in leading IS journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of the AIS, Journal of Information Technology, and the European Journal of Information Systems. Kai is a podcaster and public speaker on issues of digital innovation and the future of business and work.

Stefan Schellhammer is tenured lecturer at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Münster, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Münster in the subject area of Interorganisational Information Systems. His research focuses on studying the emergence of information infrastructures as well as the implications of the changing nature of work to the well-being of individuals.

Michaela Meinert is team assistant at the Chair of Information Systems and Interorganisational Systems at the University of Münster, Germany. She serves as a member to the Board of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). 

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