Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems: Exploring How Organization Scientists and Virtual Organization Leaders Can Collaborate

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Berente ◽  
James Howison ◽  
John L. King ◽  
Kalle J. Lyytinen ◽  
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Sociotechnical Systems ◽  
Virtual Organizations

Research on Information System Platform of Virtual Organization

2011 ◽  
Vol 63-64 ◽  
pp. 901-904
Author(s):  
Jian Fei Tu
Keyword(s):  
Communication Network ◽  
Information System ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Horizontal Integration ◽  
Information Platform ◽  
Application Service ◽  
Technological Base ◽  
Important Form

Virtual organization is an important form of the cooperation between enterprises. Information technology is the technological base of the efficient and orderly operation of the virtual organization. This article, through the analysis of the demand in information system platform of horizontal integration, vertical integration and other different operation processes of virtual organizations, puts forward the structure of the information platform constituted by application service layer, support security layer and communication network layer, and does deep analysis of the composition content of different layers.

Utilizing CommonKADS as Problem-Solving and Decision-Making for Supporting Dynamic Virtual Organization Creation

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morcous M. Yassa ◽  
Hesham A. Hassan ◽  
Fatma A. Omara
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Collaboration Network ◽  
Legacy Systems ◽  
Business Markets ◽  
Business Opportunity

<p class="Abstract">Business Opportunity (BO) needs business collaboration and rapid distributed solution. Legacy systems are not enough to cope with it and there is a need to create Dynamic Virtual Organizations (DVO). While ecosystems have no agree in this area of business markets, some earlier DVO work used ecosystems to handle BO. The main objective of this paper is to show how CommonKADS knowledge engineering methodology is used to model DVO; life cycle, identification, and formation. Towards this objective, different perspectives used to analyze Collaboration Network Organization (CNO) have been discussed. Also, four more perspectives (CNO boundary fixing, organizational behavior, CNO federation modeling, and external environments) have been suggested to obtain what we called a Federated CNO Model (FCNOM). We believe that according to the work in this paper, the negotiations within CNO components during its life cycle will be minimized, the DVO configuration automation will be support, and more harmonization between CNO partners will be accomplished.</p>

E-Collaboration Media Use and Diversity Perceptions

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry M. B. Thatcher ◽  
Susan A. Brown ◽  
Jeffrey L. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Spatial Dispersion ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Organizational Evolution ◽  
Media Synchronicity ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Media Characteristics

Virtual organizations enable collaboration and interaction among a diverse set of people regardless of their temporal and spatial dispersion. Throughout the life of a virtual organization, diversity plays an influential role in determining outcomes that ultimately affect the longevity and success of the organization. The goal of this paper is to describe the role diversity plays during different organizational evolutionary approaches, and how e-collaboration media characteristics interact with diversity and organizational evolution to influence outcomes. The authors leverage media synchronicity theory to discuss how the characteristics of different e-collaboration media can reduce or enhance perceived diversity. The role that perceived diversity has in determining outcomes is a function of whether a virtual organization is evolving according to the life-cycle, telelogical, or dialectic evolutionary approaches. Guided by organizational evolution, diversity, attribution, and media theories, the authors propose a theoretical framework with a set of propositions. The authors also provide an illustration of how the framework may be implemented by managers of virtual organizations.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENTS OF EU COUNTRIES FOR INDIVIDUALS TRADING POSSIBILITIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chitra Singh Deswal ◽  
Juozas Merkevičius
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Topsis Method ◽  
Control Data ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Media Communications ◽  
And Control ◽  
Basic Level

Data and correspondences innovation (ICT) is an extensional term for data innovation (IT) that burdens the job of brought together interchanges and the reconciliation of media communications (phone lines and remote signs) and PCs, just as essential endeavor programming, middleware, stockpiling, and varying media frameworks, that empower clients to get to, store, transmit, and control data. At the most basic level, ICT encompasses all technologies that allow individuals and businesses to interact in the digital world. It is like Information Technology (IT), yet centers fundamentally around correspondence innovations. This incorporates the Internet, remote systems, mobile phones, and other correspondence mediums. There are many problems faced during International trade which can be solved by using virtual organizations for international trades. Because of globalization, numerous organizations are presently working in more than one nation which brings forth multicultural association where representatives from more than one nation are cooperating. This paper aim of the study to find the best country for international trade using virtual organization which was accompalished using Topsis method. The following European countries (Germany, Finland, Check Republic, Austria, Estonia, Denmark, France and Belgium) were analysed during years 2014 to 2018. The limitation faced was that the data for all European countries was not available.

PERSONNEL MOTIVATION OF VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-245
Author(s):  
Laura Uturytė-Vrubliauskienė ◽  
Juozas Merkevičius
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Reliable Information ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Motivation System ◽  
Research Planning

Virtual organization is chosen as the analytical object. In order to develop organizations performance successfully, it is important to identify what type of factors motivate virtual employees. The research can be one of the ways to obtain detailed and reliable information necessary to identify means that motivate the employees in virtual organizations. The results of the research can help to develop good personnel motivation system of virtual organizations.The goal of this paper is to investigate the motivation tools that exist in virtual organiza-tions. In order to achieve this goal, the first part of the paper addresses for the analysis of the concepts of virtual organization, assumptions and circumstances for its development. Advantages and disadvantages of virtual organizations are described. The second part of the paper focuses on the research of personnel motivation in virtual organizations. First of all it describes the stages of research planning: formulation of research problem, objectives and tasks. Later the results of the research are presented and interpreted.

Editor Conclusions

2009 ◽  
pp. 278-279
Author(s):  
Cesar Camison
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Organization Management ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Limited Experience

The study of virtual organizations encompasses several research fields, and the variables involved in each of them are sometimes closely related. This represents a challenge for managers, since the decision taken about the technical tools to use, the organizational structure, incentives or procedures, for example, are tightly linked, and this represents a complex problem in itself. Nevertheless, the biggest challenge in virtual organization management is the lack of experience. Although the phenomenon is not new- there are plenty of successful communities of practice in the net- most of the managers and professionals have limited experience in networking, and only as users in specific areas of knowledge or business activities, and are not fully aware of networking possibilities and limitations. This lack of experience implies a big trial when facing the problems involved in virtual organizations management.

A Quantum Real-Time Metric for NVOs

2011 ◽  
pp. 1341-1348 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.F. Lawless ◽  
C.R. Howard ◽  
Nicole N. Kriegel
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Social Interdependence ◽  
Dynamically Reconfigurable ◽  
Technological Integration

Networked and virtual organizations (NVO’s) represent a new organizational paradigm, but no effective management solution exists. NVOs are supposed to be dynamically reconfigurable and more effective to manage than traditional organizations, even though the roles embedded within their structures disappear when a project is done. No matter how short-lived, a key opportunity afforded by an NVO is to extract its performance data for better control and also to measure its cultural and technological integration. To capture the essence of such a metric, we review traditional organizations. Whether a real or virtual organization, the central problem remains the lack of a theory of dynamic interdependence generated by social situations as when forming a dyad between two humans alters the cognitions and actions of both. Introduced to solve this central problem, the quantum mathematical model of dynamic social interdependence has recently gained credibility in the field and from a pilot study in the laboratory. Our ultimate aim is to develop a real-time metric to control and optimize NVO performance.

A Framework and Architecture for Performance Management in Virtual Organizations

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Amin Kamali ◽  
Gregory S. Richards ◽  
Bijan Raahemi ◽  
Mohammad H. Danesh
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
New World ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Performance Data ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Virtual organizations are becoming common in the new world of work characterized by modern data exchange capabilities. These organizations face new challenges in information sharing that traditional approaches cannot address. This research proposes a framework and architecture for providing performance data to partners in virtual organizations. The framework aligns the activities of partners in a virtual organization at three different layers and defines common performance measurement indicators at each layer. It also proposes an implementation architecture that enables inter-organizational performance management in collaborative environments. The proposed architecture is validated through a prototype developed using IBM business process and business intelligence products.

Strategic Use of Virtual Organization

2011 ◽  
pp. 151-168
Author(s):  
Jinyoul Lee ◽  
Mike (Tae-In) Eom ◽  
Bonn-Oh Kim
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Resource Heterogeneity ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Dynamic View ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter investigates strategic use of virtual organizations in the context of the new premise, desocialization. Desocialization refers to the alternative way of socialization because traditional interaction with other human players become less frequent in virtual space and re-illuminates the meaning of ontological and epistemological existence of virtual organizations. Drawn from the literature review, the three-stage model of virtual organizations (lifecycle) is proposed to entail the ontological and epistemological meaning to virtual organization. Dynamic interactions between stages (dynamic view) are also described to intensify the importance of each stage for virtual organizations to mature as meaningful organizations. Then, the dynamic view of virtual organization is examined in terms of resource heterogeneity and immobility (VRIO analysis) to gain insight into how virtual organizations are developed to sustain competitive advantages. Implication and conclusion of our endeavor are discussed at the end.

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