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E-Collaboration promotes interaction between people over the Internet, and is vital in virtual organization arrangements where people co-exist or work together, independent of time and location. E-Collaborations and Virtual Organizations covers a broad range of topics, from underlying technological structures to fundamental mechanisms that are relevant to e-Collaboration and virtual organizations. The chapters in this book present some of the current work in the field and represent a resource upon which knowledge, lessons, and views can be drawn upon for consideration and applications in the virtual world.
List of contents
Technology Comprehensive E-Collaboration Platform, Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure for Virtual Enterprises, In the Virtual World How Does Virtual Organizations as Collaboration Networks Benefit Society? Descriptions and Experiences from Collaboration Networks Construction, Communication and Caring for Contextual Workflows: Scenarios from Homeland Defer se, Identifying Web Service Integration Challenges, Collaborative Engineering Communities - Architecture and Integration Approaches, Virtualisation as a New Trend of Applications of the Global Information Technology (IT) - Analysis on the Example of Transformation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Global Market, Strategic Use of Virtual Organization, Seamless Multiparty Videoconferencing System, Developing an Internet-Based Groupware System, An Electronic Parent-Teacher Association, Collaborative Knowledge Share: An Application of Informal Case (Portal Academical 'Universitas'), Peer-to-Peer Corporate Resource Sharing and Distributed with MESH
About the author
Michelle W.L. Fong is a lecturer in the School of Applied Economics, Victoria University, Australia. Prior to her academic and research career, she worked with different business systems in different corporations in Singapore, Malaysia, China and Australia. This gave her an insight into the information technology applications within these organizations, which spurred her research interest in the adoption, diffusion and leapfrogging of information technology.
Summary
This work focuses on the design and implementation of collaborative technologies on organizations and theoretical considerations on links between collaborative technologies and organizational outcomes.
