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作者：Kraut, R; Steinfield, C; Chan, AP; Butler, B; Hoag, A
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Michigan State University; Cornell University; Carnegie Mellon University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：One view holds that organizations are virtual to the extent that they outsource key components of their production processes, and that electronic networks make if easier to do this. The goal of the present paper is to examine explicitly the effects that use of electronic networks for transactions with suppliers has on firms' degree of virtualization. In so doing, we also highlight factors that influence the use of networks for coordination with suppliers, and the impact such use has on coordin...
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作者：Ahuja, MK; Carley, KM
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Virtual organizations that use e-mail to communicate and coordinate their work toward a common goal are becoming ubiquitous. However, little is known about how these organizations work. Much prior research suggests that virtual organizations, for the most part because they use information technology to communicate, will be decentralized and nonhierarchical. This paper examines the behavior of one such organization. The analysis is based on a case study of the communication structure and conten...
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作者：Staples, DS; Hulland, JS; Higgins, CA
作者单位：Queens University - Canada; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：The current study is a first step in investigating how virtual organizations can manage remote employees effectively. The research used self-efficacy theory to build a model that predicts relationships between antecedents to employees' remote work self-efficacy assessments and their behavioral and attitudinal consequences. The model was tested using responses from 376 remote managed employees in 18 diverse organizations. Overall, the results indicated that remote employees' self-efficacy asses...
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作者：Grabowski, M; Roberts, KH
作者单位：Le Moyne College; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper examines the problem of risk mitigation in virtual organizations (VOs). We begin by discussing risk propensity in virtual organizations, and draw on a variety of research to suggest processes important in obtaining high levels of reliable performance in VOs. From this research we identify four processes we think are important: organizational structuring and design, communication, culture, and trust. Based on existing research done in conventional and high reliability organizations (...
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作者：Wiesenfeld, BM; Raghuram, S; Garud, R
作者单位：New York University; Fordham University
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.
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作者：DeSanctis, G; Monge, P
作者单位：Duke University; University of Southern California
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作者：Jarvenpaa, SL; Leidner, DE
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper explores the challenges of creating and maintaining trust in a global virtual team whose members transcend time, space, and culture. The challenges are highlighted by integrating recent literature on work teams, computer-mediated communication groups, cross-cultural communication, and interpersonal and organizational trust. To explore these challenges empirically, we report on a series of descriptive case studies on global virtual teams whose members were separated by location and c...
