Virtual Organizations And Innovation Outcomes
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Virtual Organizations And Innovation Outcomes
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Author : Ronny Röwert
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-11-22
Virtual Organizations And Innovation Outcomes written by Ronny Röwert and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-22 with Business & Economics categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, University of Auckland (Management and International Business), course: Contemporary Issues in Organizations, language: English, abstract: The global business world experiences dramatic developments, shifts and challenges since the end of the last century. Factors such as international competition, knowledge-based production, technological changes, advances in IT, and deregulation play an increasingly important role. Hence, conventional organizational concepts and structures of the ‘old economy’ come under growing pressure due to insufficient capabilities to deal with these landslide changes. Traditional organizational structrues, most prominently the classical bureaucracy with its conventional formalized and hierarchical form, are displaced by new organizational forms. More horizontal relationships, with partners (internal or external) being only focused on core competencies, take the place of old vertically structured hierarchies. More interactive communication approaches, both vertically and horizontally, can be observed. More decentralized management concepts lead to incentive-based and increasingly autonomous project teams (Clegg, Kornberger, & Pitsis, 2005). According to one of the most renowned management theorists Henry Mintzberg (1981), for every specific configuration of an organization’s environment and its tasks, particular organizational structures fit best. Therefore, one could expect that new organizational forms are best capable of dealing with prevailling challenges such as innovation. This essay aims to analyse the case of virtual organizations and the way they might shape, and/or derail the processes and outcomes of innovation.
Managing The Reality Of Virtual Organizations
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Author : Sandhya Shekhar
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-03-04
Managing The Reality Of Virtual Organizations written by Sandhya Shekhar and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-04 with Business & Economics categories.
This book comes at a time when virtual organizations (VO), are proliferating exponentially due to the twin catalysts of globalization and technological enablement. It provides conceptual frameworks and simple tools for identifying and addressing the complexities of managing geographically dispersed, virtually linked organizations, which may have grown organically or inorganically into a potpourri of multiple cultures, capabilities and practices. These can help to scientifically assess the impact of virtualization, balance the physical with the virtual and manage risks using early indicators. The book provides mechanisms to recognize, localize, measure and address vulnerabilities. Ensuring knowledge transfer effectiveness (KTE) is vital in VOs. A diagnostic tool has been evolved to measure KTE, isolate problems and weak links and plan effective interventions. A set of critical factors to increase the probability of success of globalization strategies have been identified. This book interleaves theory with practice and provides insights drawn from conversations with business leaders, exploratory surveys, and in-depth research using a large sample. The solid methodological underpinnings serve as a useful template for researchers, while the models can be contextualized to suit any organization. Foreword by Mr. Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO, Rediff.com; Chairman, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Organization Design And Its Impact On The Digital Innovation Process And The Digital Innovation Outcome
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Author : Robert Eirich
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-16
Organization Design And Its Impact On The Digital Innovation Process And The Digital Innovation Outcome written by Robert Eirich and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-16 with Business & Economics categories.
The book has the objective to demystify the hyper-complex world of organization design and digital innovation. It shows how organization design as a management discipline can help organizations to better master digital innovation challenges. At the same time, it discusses how organization design frameworks need to be further developed to successfully act as a driver for innovation in a digital world. While the digital age brings tremendous new opportunities, it also brings the specific challenge that companies' organization designs must be adjusted. This book shows how companies organize for innovation in the digital world by presenting thirteen practical cases from various industries.
Collaboration Dynamics In Virtual Innovation Teams
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Author : Shannon Marie Provost
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Collaboration Dynamics In Virtual Innovation Teams written by Shannon Marie Provost and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
There is a need for practical wisdom around innovative behaviors in modern organizations, in which online collaboration supports the creation of value and knowledge. Virtual teams – a strategy for innovation used increasingly in organizations – face challenges of knowledge integration and coordination across time and space. Collaborative structures and communication patterns that distinguish thriving virtual innovation teams are not well defined. With this dissertation, we explored how collaborative structures of virtual teams change over time and considered the extent to which these dynamics may impact innovation processes and performance. This longitudinal study of eleven virtual teams in the context of a health care system design project seeks new theoretical insights about innovation in distributed groups. Our primary data were collected from digital archives of project email correspondence over twenty-three months. We used social network analysis to observe structures and interactions in team email communication networks. We examined team centrality, structural dynamics, and participation equality as potential drivers of virtual innovation team outcomes, also considering how distinctive innovation process phases (e.g., design, testing, implementation) during the innovation team lifespan moderated these relationships. We found partial support for the six hypotheses tested. As predicted, participation equality was positively associated with work group performance and structural dynamics was positively associated with radical innovation. Contrary to what we predicted, team centrality was positively associated with performance and innovation. We observed interesting variation in these relationships across four innovation process phases. This research contributes to what is known about the temporality of virtual innovation teams and more generally about virtual team performance. Results from this study could inform the design and management of future virtual innovation teams and the ecosystems in which they are embedded.
Knowledge And Technology Management In Virtual Organizations Issues Trends Opportunities And Solutions
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Author : Putnik, Goran D.
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2006-12-31
Knowledge And Technology Management In Virtual Organizations Issues Trends Opportunities And Solutions written by Putnik, Goran D. and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-12-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents a collection of the most recent contributions in the areas of organization, knowledge, and technology management in the context of virtual enterprises. This book contains important and in-depth information on four dimensions: semantic, managerial, technological, and social. The semantic dimensions covered in this book are ontological and organizational approaches, concepts, organizational models, and knowledge management models. In respect to managerial dimensions, this book covers process management, integration management, relationship management, process integration, knowledge management, technology integration management, and information integration. Knowledge and Technology Management in Virtual Organizations: Issues, Trends, Opportunities and Solutions presents the technological dimension by explaining the infrastructures and technologies to support technology and information integration standards and protocols. Lastly, this title highlights the social dimension, including human resources management, human resources integration, social issues, social impact, social requirements, and communities of knowledge.
Inter Organizational Relationships
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Author : Cecilia Rossignoli
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-30
Inter Organizational Relationships written by Cecilia Rossignoli and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Business & Economics categories.
This book explores the premise that organizations are significantly influenced by their inter-organizational relationships; moreover, these relationships may generate important externalities, both positive and negative, impacting the environment at several levels. The advent of the Internet era, on the other hand, has resulted in disruptive changes in traditional inter-organizational networks, and some completely new inter-organizational settings are now arising. In its first part the book reviews the most commonly cited theories explaining inter-organizational phenomena: transaction costs economics, agency theory, resource dependence theory, game theories, collaborative networks theory, institutional theories, organizational ecology, resource-based / relational-based view of the firm, and knowledge network / social network theories. In Part II it thoroughly reviews the literature on a number of key IT-enabled inter-organizational systems currently on the rise, such as virtual organizations, e-intermediators and e-marketplaces. Lastly, Part III presents the case of the Yoox Group, a leading firm offering e-commerce services for fashion and design products. A framework is proposed for systematically linking the different possible types of inter-organizational relationships to specific, suitable sets of theories. The range of possible inter-organizational relationships is described on the basis of three pairs of opposites: conformism-breach, exploitation-exploration, and cooperation-competition. This results in a model that makes it possible to combine different theories in order to study the effects of inter-organizational ambidexterity and dynamism on performance.
Knowledge Management And Virtual Organizations
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Author : Yogesh Malhotra
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Knowledge Management And Virtual Organizations written by Yogesh Malhotra and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Computers categories.
Annotation Twenty essays present current research on knowledge management as related to effective design of new organization forms. The first section of the book covers frameworks, models, analyses, case studies and research on the integration of knowledge management within virtual organizations, virtual teams and virtual communities of practice. Themes covered in this section include business model innovation; design of virtual organization forms; net-based models; techniques for enabling knowledge capture, sharing and transfer; and collaboration and competition at intra- and inter-organizational levels. The focus of the second half is on key success factors that are important for realizing virtual models of business transformation. Topics include the role of organizational control systems, the role of internal and external employees and customers in creation of organizational knowledge, and information quality issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
The Power Of Virtual Distance
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Author : Karen Sobel Lojeski
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-04-06
The Power Of Virtual Distance written by Karen Sobel Lojeski and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-06 with Business & Economics categories.
This revised second edition presents 15 years of data on Virtual Distance metrics and their predictive impact on organizational success factors shedding new light on how to correct for communication challenges that often show up as a foggy set of digital disconnects where the vitality of the virtual workforce often gets lost in transmission. This still-evolving Digital Age conundrum continues to present new complications. The rise of remote work which rests on an increasing reliance on electronic communication and the overall growth of virtual interactions has led to the escalation of a phenomenon called Virtual Distance. Virtual Distance, which influences our behavior through three components Physical Distance, Operational Distance, and Affinity Distance affects not only how we relate to others thousands of miles away but even to co-workers sitting right next to each other! Perhaps even more problematic, Virtual Distance causes measureable malfunctions in teamwork, innovation, leader effectiveness and overall performance. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Power of Virtual Distance offers specific, proven and predictable solutions that can reverse these trends and turn Virtual Distance into a unification strategy to capture untapped competitive advantage. Surprised? The Power of Virtual Distance, 2nd Edition is a must-read for leadership who want to understand the true and quantifiable costs of the virtual workplace. For the first time ever, readers can take the guesswork out of managing the virtual workforce by applying a mathematical approach derived from the extensive Virtual Distance data set: The Virtual Distance Ratio. The Virtual Distance Ratio can precisely pinpoint the particular impacts of Virtual Distance on the organization’s critical success factors. Beyond business metrics, Virtual Distance solutions also detail ways to restore meaningfulness and well-being into people’s experience of work, enhancing life lived in the Digital Age. The Power of Virtual Distance reveals an updated set of data, including the first award-winning analysis, collected from an extended range of executives to individual contributors, that represent situations and solutions in more than 36 industries in 55 countries across the globe. Readers will get a “first look” at the data and its revelations on how to be less isolated and more integrated. Helping managers globally, this book: Offers new, real-world case studies and a chance for readers to participate in thought experiments to help with personal performance, group synergy and by extension, relationship dynamics of all kinds Demonstrates (with statistically significant trend analyses) that Virtual Distance is growing at exponential rates in every corner of communities worldwide Offers expert advice on how to manage the “unintended human consequences” of today’s digital technologies Companies that successfully harness the power of Virtual Distance demonstrate better performance. The second edition of The Power of Virtual Distance is a valuable, one-of-a-kind resource for everyone – from the C-suite to human resource professionals; from divisional leaders to project managers. Everyone in the organization can benefit by discovering how to improve financials, innovation, trust, employee engagement, satisfaction, organizational citizenship and other key performance indicators. And perhaps best of all, by following the prescriptions on how to reduce Virtual Distance, the entire workforce will have the tools they need to bring about a revival of meaning, purpose and an enlivened sense of “humanhood” back into everyday work and everyday life.
Virtual Organizations
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Author : Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-06-18
Virtual Organizations written by Luis M. Camarinha-Matos and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-18 with Computers categories.
The area of Virtual Organizations as a main component of the new discipline of Collaborative Networks has been the focus of research globally. The fast evolution of the information and communication technologies and in particular the so-called Internet technologies, also represents an important motivator for the emergence of new forms of collaboration. However, the research in many of these cases is highly fragmented, considering that each project is focused on solving specific problems. As such, there is no effective consolidation/harmonization among them in order to have an effective impact and facilitate the interaction among the involved experts. This book represents a contribution to the consolidation of the already vast amount of empirical knowledge and practical experience. A synthesis of results collected from the analysis of numerous projects and industry case studies is presented, with focus on: Principles and models, ICT infrastructures and tools, Implementation issues, and Case studies.
Collaborative Convergence And Virtual Teamwork For Organizational Transformation
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Author : Zhao, Jingyuan
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Collaborative Convergence And Virtual Teamwork For Organizational Transformation written by Zhao, Jingyuan and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Virtual teams are work arrangements where team members are geographically dispersed and work interdependently using electronic communication media to accomplish one or more organizational tasks. Over the past several decades, there has been an explosive growth in organizational use of virtual teams to organize work. In the competitive market, virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for faster time to market, low cost, and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Organizations are increasingly investing in virtual teams to enhance their performance and competitiveness. However, there are unsolved issues of design and implementation of collaboration technologies for virtual teams and their collaborative convergence. Collaborative Convergence and Virtual Teamwork for Organizational Transformation is an innovative collection of research that analyzes and discusses successful organizational transformation that requires a holistic understanding of the issues linked to team and workplaces, communication and integration, technological barriers, and sociocultural factors. The chapters highlight topics such as collaboration technologies in virtual teamwork, collaboration technologies’ impact on organizational transformation, as well as web-based tools, collaborative learning tools, group decision support systems, workflow automation systems, and more. This book is ideally intended for business professionals, managers and practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students looking for the latest research in virtual teamwork and its impact on organizational transformation.