Emerging e-collaboration concepts and applications
Title:
Emerging e-collaboration concepts and applications
Author:
Kock, Ned F., 1964-
ISBN:
9781599043951
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2007.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (x, 316 p. : ill.) : digital files.
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 / Bjørn 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, François 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.
Abstract:
"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.
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