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Shaping Organization Form
Communication, Connection, and Community
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Organization Science
Organization Science
August 1999 | 536 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Shaping Organization Form considers the role of new communication technologies in shaping organizations today and in the future.
Four key themes are considered in depth: changes in technology, changes in organizational form, and their mutual influence on one another; evolutionary processes in organizations and the ways in which technology can influence these processes; the development of organizational communities and inter-organizational relationships that are mediated by electronic communication systems; and major controversies surrounding electronically mediated organizations and directions for future research that flow out of these controversies.
Geraldine DeSanctis and Janet Fulk
Introduction
NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND NEW FORMS OF ORGANIZING
Janet Fulk and Geraldine DeSanctis
Articulation of Communication Technology and Organizational Form
Lynda M Applegate
In Search of a New Organizational Model
Peter Monge and Janet Fulk
Communication Technology for Global Network Organizations
Susan J Winter and S Lynne Taylor
The Role of Information Technology in the Transformation of Work
EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES IN NEW FORM DEVELOPMENT
Wanda J Orlikowski et al
Shaping Electronic Communication
Anitesh Barua, C-H Sophie Lee and Andrew B Whinston
Incentives and Computing Systems for Team-Based Organizations
Pamela Hinds and Sara Kiesler
Communication across Boundaries
Michael H Zack and James L McKenney
Social Context and Interaction in Ongoing Computer-Supported Management Groups
Martin Lea, Tim O'Shea and Pat Fung
Constructing the Networked Organization
SHAPING INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMUNITIES
Richard J Boland Jr and Ramkrishnan V Tenkasi
Perspective Making and Perspective Taking in Communities of Knowing
Mary R Lilnd and Robert W Zmud
Improving Inter-organizational Relationships through Voice Mail Facilitation of Peer-to-Peer Relationships
Jeanne M Pickering and John Leslie King
Hardwiring Weak Ties
David Constant, Lee Sproull amd Sara Kiesler
The Kindness of Strangers
CONTROVERSIES AND DIRECTIONS
Bart Victor and Carroll Stephens
The Dark Side of New Organizational Forms
Marshall Scott Poole
Organizational Challenges for the New Forms
William H Dutton
The Virtual Organization
Geraldine DeSanctis and Janet Fulk
Conclusion