Virtual organizations: Computer conferencing and organizational design
作者:
FrankA. Dubinskas,
Anna Hargreaves,
期刊:
Journal of Organizational Computing
(Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 4
页码: 389-416
ISSN:1054-1721
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1080/10919399309540210
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: computer conferencing;CSCW;groupware;flexible software and organizational design;technology and equivocality;virtual groups
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Computer conferencing systems link groups of users who “meet”; in the virtual space of a computer and interact around a common purpose or topic. These electronically constituted and mediated groups can mirror, cross‐cut, or hive off from existing organizational structures. This article reports a study of organizational structuring processes that accompany the introduction of a computer conferencing system in six industrial organizations. The relationships among technological capabilities and constraints, existing organization structures, managerial intent, and the unanticipated consequences of implementation for structural change are discussed. Employing the same software system in each case, organizational outcomes are radically different.
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