Exploring Virtuality Within and beyond Organizations

1. Rethinking virtuality
Niki Panteli, Mike Chiasson

Part I. Virtuality within organizations

2. Socialization in a global context: Lessons from dispersed teams
Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky, Leslie Willcocks

3. Shared communication practices and mental models in the virtual work environment
Katherine M. Chudoba, Mary Beth Watson-Manheim

4. Building virtual cooperation: Guidelines for effective performance
Velvet Weems-Landingham

5. Virtuality in organizational team environments: Concept, measurement, and effects in the context of sustainable management
C. Schmidt, B. K. Temple, A. McCready, J. Newman, S. C. Kinzler

6. Regulated and emergent identifications: the case of a virtual organization
Lin Yan

7. Reconciling visions and realities of virtual working: Findings from the UK chemicals industry
Paul Dunning-Lewis, Maria Katsorchi-Hayes

8. Virtuality of teams: Extending boundaries and discontinuities
Keith Dixon, Niki Panteli

Part II. Virtuality beyond organizations

9. Building social identity through blogging
Patchareeporn Pluempavarn, Niki Panteli

10. Playing together in cyberspace: Collective action and shared meaning constitution in virtual worlds
Anthony Papargyris, Angeliki Poulymenakou

11. Luminal possibilities for the study of virtual systems, global effects, and local practices
Mike Chiasson

12. Virtuality: time, space, consciousness, and a second life
David Kreps

13. The virtual and virtuality: Toward dialogues of transdisciplinarity
Jeremy Hunsinger

14. Is everything virtuality? Exploring the boundaries of the topics
Mike Chiasson, Niki Panteli

Nyckelord: Business and Management, International Business, Management, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks, Business Strategy/Leadership, Corporate Communication/Public Relations, International Economics