Exploring Virtuality within and beyond Organizations Social, Global and Local Dimensions

by Panteli, Niki; Chiasson, Mike; Willcocks, Leslie P.; Lacity, Mary C.

• ISBN13: 9780230201286
• ISBN10: 0230201288
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan

Summary

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 toexperience different forms of virtuality, and in the process our understanding and conception of virtuality changes.

Author Biography

Niki Panteli is Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK.

Mike W. 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

List of Tables	p. ix
List of Figures	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Series Preface	p. xii
Notes on the Contributors	p. xv
Rethinking virtuality	p. 1
Virtuality within organizations
Socialization in a global context: Lessons from dispersed teams	p. 21
Shared communication practices and mental models in the virtual work environment	p. 55
Building virtual cooperation: Guidelines for effective performance	p. 73
Virtuality in organizational team environments: Concept, measurement, and effects in the context of sustainable management	p. 95
Regulated and emergent identifications: the case of a virtual organizations	p. 126
Reconciling visions and realities of virtual working: Findings from the UK chemicals industry	p. 151
Virtuality of teams: Extending boundaries and discontinuities	p. 170
Virtuality beyond organizations
Building social identity through blogging	p. 195
Playing together in cyberspace: Collective action and shared meaning constitution in virtual worlds	p. 213
Luminal possibilities for the study of virtual systems, global effects, and local practices	p. 241
Virtuality: time, space, consciousness, and a second life	p. 254
The virtual and virtuality: Toward dialogues of transdisciplinarity	p. 269
Is everything virtuality? Exploring the boundaries of the topics	p. 286
Index	p. 293
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