SME manager development in virtual learning communities and the role of trust: A conceptual study

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Birchall ◽  
Genoveffa (Jeni) Giambona
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Manager Development

scholarly journals Understanding the Sense of Community and Continuance Intention in Virtual Communities: The Role of Commitment and Type of Community

2019 ◽  
pp. 089443931985959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baltasar González-Anta ◽  
Virginia Orengo ◽  
Ana Zornoza ◽  
Vicente Peñarroja ◽  
Vicente Martínez-Tur
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
Intention To Continue ◽  
The Relationship

Virtual communities (VCs) have become essential in current organizations and society, and so their sustainability is a topic of interest for researchers and practitioners. We focus on the sense of virtual community (SoVC) and commitment as relevant antecedents in achieving the success and maintenance of different types of VCs (communities of interest, virtual learning communities, and VCs of practice). Specifically, this study examines a moderated mediation model in which the type of VC moderates the indirect effect of a SoVC on the intention to continue through the perceived commitment of the users of the VC. The sample consists of 299 members of VCs. The results showed that SoVC influenced the intention to continue via commitment to VCs. Additionally, the relationship between SoVC and commitment was higher for communities of interest and virtual learning communities than for VCs of practice. This article contributes to previous literature by identifying the importance of participants’ engagement and the contingent effect of the type of community. Implications of the study and directions for future research are discussed.

scholarly journals The Role of Netiquettes in Establishing Relationships in Virtual Learning Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-59
Author(s):  
Abdelmajid JAMIAI
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Online Behavior ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Internet Users

Obviously, in the era of digital literacy, human relationships in virtual learning communities are governed by much social behaviour that many students in higher education respect in some time, while others are rebellious against them. The aim of this article is to investigate if there is a correlation between ‘netiquettes’, which are the guidelines that should be developed by Internet users for an acceptable online behavior, and to build human relationships in learning. It is a case study of one group in the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco. A questionnaire is used to measure the predicted relationship between netiquettes and relationship building. The sample includes fifty male and female respondents. The findings of the study indicate that there is a significant relationship between respecting netiquettes and building online relationships, set as a hypothesis for this study.

So far and yet so near: The emerging characteristics, forms and configurations of organizational proximity in the context of digitalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Hongxia Peng
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Organizational Proximity ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Management Cognition

BACKGROUND: The current pandemic crisis evidences the importance of questioning and reconsidering the evolution of organizational proximity and the crucial role of digitalization in the emergence of new characteristics, forms and configurations of organizational proximity. OBJECTIVE: This article presents a conceptual study aimed at analyzing the evolution of organizational proximity in the context of digitalization. METHODS: Adopting a systemic-cognitive approach inspired by existing studies on management cognition and the biology of cognition, this article first presents an analytical review of existing research in organizational studies and proposes a taxonomy of proximity based on the forms and characteristics identified in the organizational context. Second, it introduces the notion of a proximity unit, based on which a conceptual framework for analyzing organizational proximity is conceived. RESULTS: Based on the proposed framework, this article analyzes the new characteristics and forms of organizational proximity and identifies possible configurations of organizational proximity by pointing out the emergence of substituted proximity propelled by digitalization and formulating six propositions. CONCLUSIONS: The article ends by arguing that it is important for organizations to conceive a composite proximity strategy by taking into account the effect of substituted proximity, driven by digitalization, in the configuration of organizational proximity.

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