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Virtuality and Virtualization Kevin Crowston

Virtuality and Virtualization By Kevin Crowston

Virtuality and Virtualization by Kevin Crowston


Summary

This book begins with consideration of possible frameworks for understanding virtuality and virtualization. It examines group processes within virtual teams, focusing in particular on leadership and group identity, as well as the role of knowledge in virtual settings and other implications of the role of fiction in structuring virtuality.

Virtuality and Virtualization Summary

Virtuality and Virtualization: Proceedings of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Groups 8.2 on Information Systems and Organizations and 9.5 on Virtuality and Society, July 29-31, 2007, Portland, Oregon, USA by Kevin Crowston

This book begins with consideration of possible frameworks for understanding virtuality and virtualization. It includes papers that consider ways of analyzing virtual work in terms of work processes. It examines group processes within virtual teams, focusing in particular on leadership and group identity, as well as the role of knowledge in virtual settings and other implications of the role of fiction in structuring virtuality.

Table of Contents

Virtuality and Virtualization.- Keynotes.- Beyond Distributed Cognition.- Dig the Dirt.- Frameworks for Understanding Virtuality and Virtualization.- Conceptualizing Virtual Collaborative Work.- Conduct, Performance, and Dilemmas of Inter-organizational Virtual Organizing.- Process Issues to Achieve Virtualization.- Structuring Virtuality.- Competency Rallying Processes in Virtual Organizations.- Spatial and Temporal Boundaries in Global Teams.- Coordinating Global Software Development Activities.- The Tension Between Expectations of Availability and the Reality of Availability in Hybrid Teams.- A Process Maturity Model for Geographically Dispersed Software Sustenance Operations.- Group Processes in Virtual Teams.- A Structurational Perspective on Leadership in Virtual Teams.- Ambassadorial Leadership.- The Presentation of Self in a Virtual but Work-related Environment.- Understanding Virtuality.- Conditions Enabling Effective Multiple Team Membership.- Knowledge and Virtuality.- Learning Triggers in Virtual Groups.- Sharing Knowledge in Global Virtual Teams.- The Practice of e-Science and e-Social Science.- From Senses to Sensors.- Expertise Management in a Distributed Context.- The Role of Fiction in Structuring Virtuality.- Building Virtual Spaces.- Refraining Online Games.- Virtualizing the Virtual.- Panels.- Virtualization and Institutions.- Exploring the Nature of Virtuality.- The Social in the Virtual.- The Role of Shapers in Knowledge-Sharing.- Game Architecture and Virtual Teamwork.- The IT Artifact and Telecommuting.- Virtual Patients.

Additional information

NPB9780387730240
9780387730240
0387730249
Virtuality and Virtualization: Proceedings of the International Federation of Information Processing Working Groups 8.2 on Information Systems and Organizations and 9.5 on Virtuality and Society, July 29-31, 2007, Portland, Oregon, USA by Kevin Crowston
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Hardback
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
2007-07-24
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