Virtual Organizations

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Pascal Sieber and Joachim Griese (Eds.)

Organizational Virtualness

Proceedings of the VoNet - Workshop, April 27-28, 1998

Sponsored by

Institute of Information Systems, Department of Information
Management, University of Bern

Simowa Verlag Bern

Pascal Sieber and Joachim Griese (Eds.)

Organizational Virtualness

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Contents

Preface ........................................................................................................ V
Call for Papers ........................................................................................ VIIResumée of VoTalk .................................................................................... 9
Nicole Strausak
Invited Papers
The Realities of Virtuality .............................................................. 25
David J. Skyrme
Global Virtual Teams: Integrating Models of Trust .................... 35
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa and Thomas R. Shaw
The Importance of Trust and BusinessRelationships in the
Formation of Virtual Organisations .............................................. 53
Christopher P. Holland
Workshop Papers
Characteristics of Virtual Organizations ...................................... 65
Hans Jägers, Wendy Jansen and Wilchard Steenbakkers
Configuration of Virtual Enterprises based on a
Framework for Global Virtual Business....................................... 77
Walter Eversheim, Thomas Bauernhansl, Carlos Bremer, Arturo
Molina, Sascha Schuth and Martin Walz
Organizational Virtualness in Business and Legal Reality ......... 85
Andreas Pletsch
A Framework for Virtual Organizing ........................................... 93
Roland Klüber
Organizational Virtualness - The Case of Small
IT Companies................................................................................. 107
Pascal Sieber

III

Contents

Managing Virtual Work: A Framework for
Managerial Action ......................................................................... 123
Mary Beth Fritz and Marvin L. Manheim
Information Technology Tools to Support Virtual
Organization Management: A Cognitive Informatics
Approach........................................................................................ 137
Marvin L. Manheim and Mary Beth Fritz
A Cooperation Platform for Virtual Enterprises ....................... 155
Benno Suter
The Management of Organisational Core Competencies .......... 165
Sue Balint and Athanassios Kourouklis
Shared Services in Accounting and Finance ............................... 173
Dirk Swagerman andJorn van Steenis
Electronic Software Distribution in a
Virtual Software House ................................................................. 189
Patrick Heartsch and Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva
Panel Discussion
Lessons From Managerial Theories for Improving
Virtualness in Electronic Business ............................................... 203
Arjen Wassenaar, Rajesri Govindaraju, ElisaMoreno Bragado,
Ariane von Raesfeld Meijer, Pieter Ribbers and Dirk Swagerman
Author Index ........................................................................................... 225

IV

Preface
VoNet the Newsletter @ http://www.virtual-organization.net and the newslist
VoTalk are celebrating their first year in existence. During this time they have
attracted a lot of attention fromresearchers and from managers. VoTalk has now
824 passive and 688 active subscribers from more than 30 countries. In the moderated newslist they exchange about 5 messages a week. 17 articles have been
published in the Newsletter and the number of submissions is increasing.
To concentrate on the topic of organizational virtualness we organized a workshop in April 1998 to present and discuss...