Which Way is Forward? Direction and Control in Virtual Space

2011 ◽  
pp. 28-42
Author(s):  
Malcolm Warner ◽  
Morgen Witzel
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Forward Direction ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Strategic Option ◽  
Optimal Mix ◽  
And Control ◽  
Management Issues

The virtual organization offers many advantages, and can be a powerful strategic option for firms attempting to extend the scope and reach of their operations. However, it is by no means an easy option. Physical dispersal of the organization brings with it many associated problems of management and control. In this chapter, we look at some of these management issues and some of the options for managing more effectively in virtual space. In particular, we argue that management in virtual organizations still requires attention to the fundamentals of management. “Going virtual” should be seen as a strategic option which requires firms to achieve the optimal mix of physical and virtual elements and systems. In particular, we argue that a mastery of the skills of knowledge management is necessary in order to manage virtual systems and structures. Firms which fail to develop these skills run significant risks when taking the virtual option.

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.

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.

Visualizing Knowledge Networks and Flows to Enhance Organizational Metacognition in Virtual Organizations

2010 ◽  
pp. 1617-1631
Author(s):  
Mark E. Nissen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Organizational Practice ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Key Issues

In today’s increasingly networked world of organizational practice, information and computer technologies are enabling people and organizations to collaborate ever more virtually (i.e., even when distributed temporally and geographically). Despite the clear and many advantages enabled by the virtual organization, this increasingly common virtual organizational form is very demanding in terms of Knowledge Management. The key problem is that many otherwise knowledgeable people and organizations are not fully aware of their knowledge networks, and even more problematic, they are not aware that they are not aware. Thus organizational metacognition (e.g., an organization knowing what it knows) offers the potential to elucidate the key issues associated with knowledge networking in the virtual organization. The research described in this chapter builds upon a stream of work to understand and harness dynamic knowledge and organization for competitive advantage, with a particular emphasis upon knowledge networks and flows in the virtual organizational context.

Visualizing Knowledge Networks and Flows to Enhance Organizational Metacognition in Virtual Organizations

2011 ◽  
pp. 1494-1507
Author(s):  
Mark E. Nissen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Organizational Practice ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Key Issues

In today’s increasingly networked world of organizational practice, information and computer technologies are enabling people and organizations to collaborate ever more virtually (i.e., even when distributed temporally and geographically). Despite the clear and many advantages enabled by the virtual organization, this increasingly common virtual organizational form is very demanding in terms of Knowledge Management. The key problem is that many otherwise knowledgeable people and organizations are not fully aware of their knowledge networks, and even more problematic, they are not aware that they are not aware. Thus organizational metacognition (e.g., an organization knowing what it knows) offers the potential to elucidate the key issues associated with knowledge networking in the virtual organization. The research described in this chapter builds upon a stream of work to understand and harness dynamic knowledge and organization for competitive advantage, with a particular emphasis upon knowledge networks and flows in the virtual organizational context.

Visualizing Knowledge Networks and Flows to Enhance Organizational Metacognition in Virtual Organizations

2009 ◽  
pp. 74-88
Author(s):  
Mark E. Nissen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
Knowledge Networks ◽  
Organizational Practice ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Key Issues

In today’s increasingly networked world of organizational practice, information and computer technologies are enabling people and organizations to collaborate ever more virtually (i.e., even when distributed temporally and geographically). Despite the clear and many advantages enabled by the virtual organization, this increasingly common virtual organizational form is very demanding in terms of Knowledge Management. The key problem is that many otherwise knowledgeable people and organizations are not fully aware of their knowledge networks, and even more problematic, they are not aware that they are not aware. Thus organizational metacognition (e.g., an organization knowing what it knows) offers the potential to elucidate the key issues associated with knowledge networking in the virtual organization. The research described in this chapter builds upon a stream of work to understand and harness dynamic knowledge and organization for competitive advantage, with a particular emphasis upon knowledge networks and flows in the virtual organizational context.

scholarly journals Investigating the use of knowledge management as a management tool in the mining industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinko Herman Boikanyo ◽  
Ronnie Lotriet ◽  
Pieter W. Buys
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Research Population ◽  
And Control ◽  
Use Of Knowledge ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The main objective of this research study is to investigate the extent to which knowledge management is used within the mining industry. Knowledge management includes the identification and examination of available and required knowledge and the subsequent planning and control of actions to develop knowledge assets to accomplish organizational objectives. A structured questionnaire is used for the study. A total of 300 mines were randomly selected from a research population of mining organizations in South Africa, Africa and globally. The respondents were all part of senior management. A response rate of 64% was achieved. A significant number of respondents indicates that there is no transfer of knowledge about the best practices within their organizations. Some of the participants indicate that their organizations do not have the required technical infrastructure to enable knowledge sharing whilst some agree that the culture in their organizations is not conducive to the sharing of knowledge. A statistically and practically significant positive relationship with a large effect is found between the construct of knowledge management and perceived business performance. The mining organizations in Africa are ranked the lowest in terms of applications of knowledge management principles

scholarly journals Personality identity in the terms of virtualization of being

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 20016
Author(s):  
Zinaida Ryabikina ◽  
Ekaterina Bogomolova ◽  
Lyudmila Ozhigova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Major Activity ◽  
Communication Partner ◽  
Content Mining ◽  
And Control

The Internet users have been studied in the terms of a positive or negative impact on personality existence and co-existence in the context of virtual reality. Personality activity focus on backing up their own identity during the interaction with the Other in the virtual co-existence space. The web content mining of opinions expressed by social networks on thematic forums shows that major activity drivers in the virtual space of social networks are communicative, affiliative and self-assertive drivers. This is due to a personality's aim at backing up their identity in co-existence with the Other. The FIRO-B questionnaire has revealed relevant dominance of virtual communication participants' own activity over activity expected from their communication partner regarding the scales of inclusion and control. The opportunity to be an agent for "both" (themselves and their virtual communication partner) in the fields of inclusion and control makes it easier to gain a personality's required confirmation of their identity in relationship with the Other as well as get reassured that their being has been successfully extended into the Other's agent world (to personalize). Virtualization of a personality's relationship carries risks for identity being simulated due to non-availability of a true dialogue with the Other.

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.

Cyber Identity

2014 ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Ana-Cristina Ionescu
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control

The realities of our world are imperatively legitimated by the complex relationship between media, technology, and society. Whether we deal with old or new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), the content of the message delivered by the media assumes a fundamental role. The adherence of a large number of individuals to a common idea facilitates the formation of media-enabled personalities and communities within the virtual space. The emergence of Web 2.0 solves the tension from the ‘90s, when the public opinion decomposed into an amalgam of informal opinions of private individuals not entirely convinced by the formal ones, issued by publicistically effective but one-way communication media. While today the Internet provides the most inclusive forum of public deliberation, where communication is negotiated between cyber-women and cyber-men with equal rights, healed of the social diseases of the outer world, an important gap in our knowledge is whether Web 2.0 reflects our existing reality or whether it constructs a new environment, one that is devoid of the old biases. I would like to fill this gap in information, by exploring whether virtual communities represent a continuation, by technical means, of the pre-existing, face-to-face, geographic, stereotyped interactions, or whether they enabled the establishment of substantially different structures with their own intrinsic features and dynamics, where women have access to and control information.

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