scholarly journals Virtual Organization to Virtual Product: Structural Challenges to Online Newspapers

10.28945/2529 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Virtual Organisations ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Similar Content ◽  
Virtual Product

This paper is about the online newspaper industry and the organisational changes that have been necessitated by economic downturn and natural evolution. It explains how online newspapers were created as virtual organisations (VO) by publishers to protect valuable franchises and in the early stages of the technology boom were replicas of their traditional newspaper counterparts. It describes two VO structures that have applied during the online newspaper life cycle and the changes as economic pressures lead to de-structuring. This has resulted in convergence of publishing cultures with online and traditional disciplines working in a multi-skilling environment on two different products with similar content delivered through physical and electronic means. A model of the new working entity is provided. The paper concludes by raising cultural organisational issues relevant to a clash of journalistic disciplines.

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 Commercial ventures in nonprofit organizations: stratgegic change or natural evolution?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes G. Meinhard ◽  
Louise Moher ◽  
Mary K. Foster ◽  
Susan Fitzrandolph
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Planned Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Working Paper

This paper investigates the change processes involved in establishing commercial ventures as revenue generating alternatives in eleven nonprofit organizations, and reports on factors contributing to their success. The eleven cases studied illustrate that the establishment of commercial ventures in nonprofit organizations may result from either deliberate planning or following emergent opportunities. Regardless of whether change was emergent or deliberate, successful organizations were ones that did not try to radically change their paradigms. Their ventures were either merely an extension of existing physical or human resources, or entwined with their mission very early in their life cycle. The unsuccessful and struggling ventures, however, were the result of intended, deliberately planned change strategies that failed because the ventures failed to mesh with the organization’s paradigm. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

Changing news: re-adjusting science studies to online newspapers

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 771-777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hauke Riesch
Keyword(s):  
Science Studies ◽  
Online News ◽  
Hard Copy ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
New Information ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Traditional Norms

With the newspapers’ recent move to online reporting, traditional norms and practices of news reporting have changed to accommodate the new realities of online news writing. In particular, online news is much more fluid and prone to change in content than the traditional hard-copy newspapers – online newspaper articles often change over the course of the following days or even weeks as they respond to criticisms and new information becoming available. This poses a problem for social scientists who analyse newspaper coverage of science, health and risk topics, because it is no longer clear who has read and written what version, and what impact they potentially had on the national debates on these topics. In this note I want to briefly flag up this problem through two recent examples of UK national science stories and discuss the potential implications for PUS media research.

One Product, Two Markets: How Geography Differentiates Online Newspaper Audiences

2007 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 562-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Sylvie ◽  
Hsiang Iris Chyi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Secondary Data Analysis ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Substantial Portion ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Online Traffic ◽  
Print Market

A secondary data analysis of 136 U.S. online newspapers' usage reports investigates how geography differentiates online newspaper audiences. Results showed that online newspaper penetration is stronger in the local market, but the local market accounts for less than 50% of the overall traffic—suggesting that the size of the long-distance readership is larger than previously anticipated. Larger newspapers tend to attain a larger online audience (in raw numbers), but all newspapers attain a substantial portion of online traffic from outside the print market. Online or not, geography still matters.

The use of online newspapers among librarians in India

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-12
Author(s):  
V.S. Sivankutty ◽  
Jinu Sudhakaran
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Science Educators ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Different Parts

PurposeLibrarians need to educate users about online newspapers available in the library. The purpose of this paper is to survey the attitude of librarians towards online newspapers.Design/methodology/approachA questionnaire on the various aspects of online newspaper usage was prepared and was circulated to librarians working in various parts of the country through e‐mail.FindingsIt was found that librarians are making use of many features in the newspaper sites while offering library services.Research limitations/implicationsSince the questionnaire was circulated online an interaction with the librarians was not possible. Partial responses were eliminated from the study.Social implicationsNewspapers are a preferred source of information. Online newspapers from different parts of the world open a new window of knowledge to all. Librarians and administrators should engage in promoting online newspapers so that they will reach a wider array of users.Originality/valueThe attitude of librarians in India towards online newspapers has not received much attention up to now; such a study would help various firms, library science educators and organizations to rethink their usage of online newspapers.

scholarly journals Commercial Ventures in Nonprofit Organizations: Strategic Change or Natural Evolution?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Meinhard ◽  
Louise Moher ◽  
Mary Foster ◽  
Susan Fizrandolph
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Voluntary Sector ◽  
Planned Change ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Change Strategies ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Working Paper

This paper investigates the change processes involved in establishing commercial ventures as revenue generating alternatives in eleven nonprofit organizations, and reports on factors contributing to their success. The eleven cases studied illustrate that the establishment of commercial ventures in nonprofit organizations may result from either deliberate planning or following emergent opportunities. Regardless of whether change was emergent or deliberate, successful organizations were ones that did not try to radically change their paradigms. Their ventures were either merely an extension of existing physical or human resources, or entwined with their mission very early in their life cycle. The unsuccessful and struggling ventures, however, were the result of intended, deliberately planned change strategies that failed because the ventures failed to mesh with the organization’s paradigm. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Keywords: nonprofit, commercial ventures, change Citation:

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