Communication patterns as determinants of organizational identification in a virtual organization

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wiesenfeld, BM; Raghuram, S; Garud, R
• 署名单位: New York University; Fordham University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.10.6.777
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 777-790
• 关键词: virtual work; ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION; COMMUNICATION MEDIA

摘要

Recent advances in information technologies provide employees the freedom to work from any place and at any time. Such temporal and spatial dispersion, however, weakens the ties that bind organizations and their members. We suggest that organizational identification may be the critical glue linking virtual workers and their organizations. We explore the role that information technologies play in the creation and maintenance of a common identity among decoupled organization members.