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). The multidisciplinary team of authors examines virtualization from points of view ranging from the organizational to the technological to the sociological and psychological.

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Physica Verlag in Springer Science + Business Media
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InhaltsangabeEnvisioning and Planning for Virtualization.- Aligning Goals, Virtuality and Capability: A Virtual Alignment Model.- Envisioning and Monitoring the Process of Becoming Virtual.- The Challenge of Becoming Virtual.- New Insights into Knowledge Management and Virtualization.- Social Uncertainty in Virtual Organizations: A Preliminary Ontology of the Constituent Elements.- When Communities of Practice Fail: Community Ties and Organizational Commitment.- An Exploratory Survey of the Structure and Components of Organizational Memory.- The Organization as a Transactive Memory System.- Adoption of Technologies for Virtual Work.- Monitoring, Control and the Performance of Virtual Work.- Understanding Virtualization.- The Challenge of Becoming Virtual, Part 2.- Reflections from the Frontline: The Journey of a Knowledge Manager.- The Forensics of a Challenged Initiative.- Tools and Capabilities for Becoming Virtual.