Virtual working : social and organisational dynamics / edited by Paul Jackson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : from new designs to new dynamics / Paul J. Jackson -- Knowledge management in the Web enterprise : exploiting communities of practice / Alistair Campbell -- Building collaborative networks : new product development across organisational boundaries / Lisa Harris [and others] -- Virtual teams and lost proximity : consequences on trust relationships / Joe Nandhakumar -- Re-forming organisations : contributions of teleworking employees / Kiran Mirchandani -- Narratives and identity in flexible working and teleworking organisations / Sean Galpin and David Sims -- Managing virtual working : between commitment and control? / Astrid Depickere -- Management rationalities and virtual working : adjusting telework to different organisational cultures and rationalities / Reima Suomi and Juhani Pekkola -- Autonomy, control and the virtual worker / Louise M. Adami -- Learning and knowledge management : a theoretical framework for learning in flexible organisations / Charlotte Björkegren and Birger Rapp -- Organisational learning and the virtual organisation / Ian McLoughlin and Paul J. Jackson -- Management of knowledge as interface management : from exo-worlds to endo-worlds / Frank A. Morath and Artur P. Schmidt.

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Annotation. This book addresses the social and organisational dynamics which underlie recent technological and work developments within organisations. often referred to as 'virtual working'. It seeks to go beyond a mere description of this new work phenomenon in order to provide more rigorous ways of analysing and understanding the issues raised. In addition to providing accounts of developments such as web-based enterprises and virtual teams, each contributor focuses on the empolyment of information technology to transcend the boundaries between and within organisations, and the consequences this has for social and organisationaL relations.

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