Emerging e-collaboration concepts and applications /

"This book presents a state-of-the-art discussion of conceptual and applied e-collaboration issues. Business organizations increasingly rely on collaborative processes to maintain their competitiveness. E-collaboration technologies are at the source of something that underlies most business, po...

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Corporate Authors: IGI Global
Group Author: Kock, Ned F., 1964- (Editor)
Published: IGI Global,
Publisher Address: Hershey, Pa. :
Publication Dates: 2007.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-59904-393-7
Summary: "This book presents a state-of-the-art discussion of conceptual and applied e-collaboration issues. Business organizations increasingly rely on collaborative processes to maintain their competitiveness. E-collaboration technologies are at the source of something that underlies most business, political, and even societal developments - intense human collaboration"--Provided by publisher.
Carrier Form: PDFs (x, 316 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781599043951 (ebook)
1599043955 (ebook)
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Index Number: HD30
CLC: F270.7
Contents: Preface -- Section I: Conceptual and methodological issues. 1. A discussion of key conceptual elements of e-collaboration / Ned Kock -- 2. Featuring technology in studies of e-collaboration technology effects / M. Markus -- 3. Research challenges for integration of e-collaboration technologies / Bj rn Munkvold, Ilze Zigurs -- 4. Collaborative sensemaking support / John Nosek -- 5. Action research and its use in e-collaboration inquiry / Ned Kock.
Section II: Applied research and challenges. 6. The role of structured conflict and consensus approaches invirtual team strategic decision making / Jerry Fjermestad -- 7. E-Collaboration in distributed requirements determination / Roberto Evaristo, Mary Watson-Manheim, Jorge Audy -- 8. Innovation diffusion and e-collaboration / Shaila Miranda, Pamela Carter -- 9. Internet-based customer collaboration / Ulrike Schultze, Anita Bhappu -- 10. Patterns in electronic brainstorming / Alan Dennis, Alain Pinsonneault, Kelly McNamara Hilmer, Henri Barki, Brent Gallupe, Mark Huber, Fran cois Bellavance.
Section III: Research syntheses and debate. 11. Are we genetical maladapted for e-collaboration? / Ned Kock, Donald Hantula -- 12. Propositions for cognitive support of e-collaboration / C. Smith, Stephen Hayne -- 13. A meta-analysis of group size effects in electronic brainstorming / Alan Dennis, Michael Williams -- 14. Virtual teams / Alain Pinsonneault, Olivier Caya -- 15. Deceptive communication in e-collaboration / Joey George, Kent Marett -- About the authors -- Index.