Office Space, Cyberspace and Virtual Organization

Barnatt, Christopher

doi:10.1177/030630709502000407

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“…This definition is very subtle since it allows us to deal with agents, groups/teams of agents, organizations of agents, networks of organizations of agents as well as virtual organizations of agents (in the sense of (Barnatt, 1995) virtual organizations as overlay structures) in the same way. Note that the term objective here is arbitrary and could easily be replaced with function, goal, mission, unit name etc.…”

Section: Definition 1 An Organizational Unit Is Defined As Followsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hunting in the dark by a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Hirata¹,

Nakahama²,

Yoshioka³

2014

Slovak Raptor Journal

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Section: Definition 1 An Organizational Unit Is Defined As Followsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hunting in the dark by a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Hirata¹,

Nakahama²,

Yoshioka³

2014

Slovak Raptor Journal

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“…These trends of development led to the introduction of the term 'virtual corporation', which was introduced to the public by Davidow and M alone ( 1992) , after which Byrne ( 1993) popularized the term further. A virtual organization is a temporary network of companies where potential partners are kept in reserve, and which then come together quickly to exploit fast-changing opportunities ( Byrne 1993, Barnatt 1995 . I n cu rrent network research the term 'dynamic network' can be used interchangeably with virtual organization.…”

Section: Organizing the Virtual Organizationmentioning

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“…As examples, product innovation and accumulation of knowledge ( Lipparini and Lorenzoni 1993) , the lowering of xed costs in business ( Barnatt 1995) or the entrepreneurial pursuit ( J arillo 1989) have all been o ered as the reasons for continued networking. M ost often, however, the concept of 'trust' has been presented as the glue ( Thorelli 1986, Larson 1991, Blomquist 1994, Sanner 1997 .…”

Section: Conceptualizing Virtual Org Anizations -F Rom Networking Thementioning

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Virtual organization and the SMEs: a review and model development

Pihkala

Varamäki²,

Vesalainen³

1999

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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asa.Virtual organizations have been presented as one solution for SM Es aiming to increase their competitiveness. This paper seeks to clarify those preconditions that a ect the abilities of SM Es to participate in virtual organizations. The reviews on the networking literature and the resource-based theory show that the demands that virtual organizations set to the SM Es are substantial, and that from this point of view getting access into this type of networking is possible only for those SM Es that are competitive already. I n the theoretical part of the paper a typology of SM Es is created, highlighting the resource base and networking capabilities of di erent SM Es.The paper presents four illustrative cases, re ecting the theoretical types. The cases bring out the nature of SM E networking as an iterative process: the more the rm participates in networking the better it is capable of creating new co-operation. On the other hand, if the rm is either unwilling or incapable of networking with other rms the preconditions for participating in a virtual organization become unreachable.

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“…In today's global economy where the drive for competitive advantage has become all pervasive, 'working together at a distance' has become an economic imperative (Barnatt 1995). Inter-organisational boundaries as well as the work/ home distinction is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…With the notion of net-working the traditional notion of work as a time-and space-located activity, became work as a distributed, dispersed and dislocated activity in which time and space are seen to be an increasingly malleable resource. Work, as net-work, is now becoming visualised and articulated as a network of activities bound together through information and communication technology (Morgan 1989;Miles and Snow 1986;Barnatt 1995). In this rapidly emerging world of networking telecooperation, its possibilities and its limits, has become an issue in need of serious consideration.…”

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Cooperation, Coordination and Interpretation in Virtual Environments: Some Thoughts on Working-Together

Introna

2001

CTW

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The need for information technology-mediated cooperation seems obvious. However, what is not obvious is what this means and what social demands such cooperation may imply. To explore this is the intention of the paper. As a first step the paper performs an etymological analysis of the words telecooperation and telecoordination. Such an analysis indicates that cooperation happens when people engage in the production of a work as if 'one mind or body', where their activities fuse together in a way that makes the suggestion of separation seem incomprehensible. In the work they do not merely aim to achieve an outcome, they also 'insert' themselves 'in' the work in a way that makes it a human achievement rather than a mere product -this is cooperation as working-together. With this notion of cooperation in mind the paper then proceeds to analyse the social conditions for cooperation as working-together. It shows, using the work of Wittgenstein, that language is fundamental to cooperation and the sharing of knowledge -not language as a system for the exchange of information but language as a medium for the co-creation of a local way of doing, a local language, to capture the local distinctions that make a particular local activity significant and meaningful to the participants. The paper then proceeds to question this strong notion of cooperation. It argues that most cooperative activities tend not to conform with such stringent demands. The paper suggests that a cooperative problem is best viewed as a situation in which ambiguity is accepted as a structural element of the interaction. From this perspective the paper suggests that hermeneutics may be a productive way to understand the creation of shared interpretative spaces that makes mediated cooperation possible. The paper concludes with some implications for mediated cooperative work.

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Office Space, Cyberspace and Virtual Organization

Cited by 63 publications

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Hunting in the dark by a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Hunting in the dark by a peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)

Virtual organization and the SMEs: a review and model development

Cooperation, Coordination and Interpretation in Virtual Environments: Some Thoughts on Working-Together

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