Communication, Knowledge and Social Processes in Virtual Organizations: From Socioware to CyberOrganism - Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC)
• DIMENSIONS OF THE COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
• VIRTUAL COOPERATIVE INTERACTIONS IN GLOBAL VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS
• SOCIOWARE MODEL OF VIRTUAL COOPERATIVE INTERACTION
  • Some Definitions
  • A Punctuated Discourse Model of Computer-Mediated Communications
  • Time Structure of Punctuated Discourse
  • The Time Dimension in Virtual Cooperative Interaction
  • Awareness Structure of Punctuated Discourse
    • Awareness Issues in Virtual Organizations
    • Collective Awareness
      • Awareness of the Group's Collective Long Term Memory
      • Awareness Members Have of One Another
    • Awareness Hierarchy of Global Virtual Organizations
      • CHRONO: Chronological Awareness Support Tools
      • Further Developments
  • Motivations for Participation in Virtual Organizations
  • Reinforcement of Virtual Cooperative Interaction
• GLOBAL VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION AS CYBERORGANISM
  • Living Systems Theory
  • Critical Subsystems in Living Systems Theory
    • Critical Subsystems
      • Subsystems Processing Matter-Energy and Information
      • Matter-Energy Processing Subsystems
      • Information Processing Subsystems
  • Collective Intelligence Model
  • Critical Subsystems at the CyberOrganism Level
• SUMMARY
• CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
• REFERENCES

Last update: 2002-03-27 by Lee Chen