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Exploring Virtuality Within and Beyond Organizations

Social, Global and Local Dimensions

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  • © 2008

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Authors:
  1. Niki Panteli

    1. University of Bath School of Management, UK

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  2. Mike Chiasson

    1. Lancaster University, UK

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  • Interest in Virtual Worlds is huge, this is very topical
  • Written by two internationally recognized authorities in the field, with expert contributions
  • Very little competing material, presented in a rigorous yet accessible way

Part of the book series: Technology, Work and Globalization (TWG)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Rethinking virtuality

    1. Rethinking virtuality

      • Niki Panteli, Mike Chiasson
      Pages 1-17

  3. Virtuality within organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Socialization in a global context: Lessons from dispersed teams

      • Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky, Leslie Willcocks
      Pages 21-54

    3. Shared communication practices and mental models in the virtual work environment

      • Katherine M. Chudoba, Mary Beth Watson-Manheim
      Pages 55-72

    4. Building virtual cooperation: Guidelines for effective performance

      • Velvet Weems-Landingham
      Pages 73-94

    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
      Pages 95-125

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

      • Lin Yan
      Pages 126-150

    7. Reconciling visions and realities of virtual working: Findings from the UK chemicals industry

      • Paul Dunning-Lewis, Maria Katsorchi-Hayes
      Pages 151-169

    8. Virtuality of teams: Extending boundaries and discontinuities

      • Keith Dixon, Niki Panteli
      Pages 170-192

  4. Virtuality beyond organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Building social identity through blogging

      • Patchareeporn Pluempavarn, Niki Panteli
      Pages 195-212

    3. Playing together in cyberspace: Collective action and shared meaning constitution in virtual worlds

      • Anthony Papargyris, Angeliki Poulymenakou
      Pages 213-240

    4. Luminal possibilities for the study of virtual systems, global effects, and local practices

      • Mike Chiasson
      Pages 241-253

    5. Virtuality: time, space, consciousness, and a second life

      • David Kreps
      Pages 254-268

    6. The virtual and virtuality: Toward dialogues of transdisciplinarity

      • Jeremy Hunsinger
      Pages 269-285

    7. Is everything virtuality? Exploring the boundaries of the topics

      • Mike Chiasson, Niki Panteli
      Pages 286-291

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 293-294
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About this book

In recent years, there has been much interest in the 'virtual' –teams, organizations and communities –in management research and practice. As technology and social practices change we have more opportunity to experience different forms of virtuality, and in the process our understanding and conception of virtuality changes.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Bath School of Management, UK

    Niki Panteli

  • Lancaster University, UK

    Mike Chiasson

About the authors

NIKI PANTELI is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and Director for the Centre for Information Management at the University of Bath, UK and the Chair of the IFIP W.G. 9.5 'Virtuality& Society'. 

MIKE CHIASSON is currently a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University's Management School, in the Department of Management Science.  Before joining Lancaster University, he was an Associate Professor in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary from 1999 to 2006, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999. 

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