Becoming Virtual Knowledge Management and Transformation of the Distributed Organization

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 defini...

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Other Authors: Klobas, Jane E. (Editor), Jackson, Paul D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 2008, 2008
Edition:1st ed. 2008
Series:Contributions to Management Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XII, 267 p. 25 illus online resource
ISBN:9783790819588