Exploring Virtuality Within and Beyond Organizations: Social, Global and Local Dimensions

by N. Panteli, M. Chiasson

Overview

In recent years, there has been much interest in the 'virtual' –teams, organizations and communities –in management research and practice. As technology and social practices change we have more opportunity to experience different forms of virtuality, and in the process our understanding and conception of virtuality changes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230201286
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/09/2008
Series:	Technology, Work and Globalization
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	294
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

NIKI PANTELI is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Director for the Centre for Information Management at the University of Bath, UK and the Chair of the IFIP W.G. 9.5 'Virtuality& Society'.

MIKE CHIASSON is currently a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University's Management School, in the Department of Management Science. Before joining Lancaster University, he was an Associate Professor in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary from 1999 to 2006, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.

Table of Contents

Rethinking Virtuality: N.Panteli& M.Chiasson
PART I: VIRTUALITY WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS
Socialization in a Global Context: Lessons from Dispersed Teams; I.Oshri, J.Kotlarsky& L.Willcocks
Shared Communication Practices and Mental Models in the Virtual Work Environment; K.M.Chudoba& M.Watson-Manheim
Building Virtual Cooperation: Guidelines for Effective Performance; V.Weems-Landingham
Virtuality in Organizational Team Environments: Concept, Measurement and Effects in the Context of Sustainable Management; C.Schmidt, B.K.Temple, A.McCready, J.Newman& S.C.Kinzler
Regulated and Emergent Identifications in Virtual Organization; L.Yan
Reconciling Visions and Realities of Virtual Working: Findings from the UK Chemicals Industry; P.Dunning Lewis & M.Katsorchi-Hayes
Virtuality of Teams: Extending Boundaries and Discontinuities; K.Dixon& N.Panteli
PART II: VIRTUALITY BEYOND ORGANIZATIONS
Building Social Identity through Blogging; P.Pluempavarn& N.Panteli
Playing Together in Cyberspace: Collective Action and Shared Meaning Constitution in Virtual Worlds; A.Papargyris & A.Poulymenakou
Luminal Possibilities for the Study of Virtual Systems, Global Effects and Local Practices; M.Chiasson
Virtuality: Time, Space, Consciousness and a Second Life; D.Kreps
TheVirtual and Virtuality:Toward Dialogues of Transdisciplinarity; J.Hunsinger
Is Everything Virtuality? Exploring the Boundaries of the Topics; M.Chiasson& N.Panteli