Becoming Virtual [electronic resource] : Knowledge Management and Transformation of the Distributed Organization

• Tác giả: Paul D Jackson, Jane E Klobas
• ISBN-13: 978-3790819588
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 330.0151 Economics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD : Imprint: Physica, 2008.
• Mô tả vật lý: XII, 267 p. 25 illus. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 299871
• Chủ đề: 1. Application software; 2. Business information services; 3. Business mathematics; 4. Industrial organization; 5. Business Mathematics

Tóm tắt

This book examines the capabilities needed to transform a globally distributed organization into a virtual organization (an organization that exists and operates across time and distance with the support of global communications technologies such as the Internet). It introduces techniques for definition of goals for virtualization, for monitoring progress toward virtualization and for studying the impact of virtualization on social uncertainty, knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer, organizational memory, transactive memory, communities of practice and organizational commitment, power and control. These techniques are applied in an extended case study of a development aid organization's attempts to use knowledge management for virtualization over a two year period. The multidisciplinary team of authors examines virtualization from points of view ranging from the organizational to the technological to the sociological and psychological.