TY - BOOK ID - 219471 TI - Becoming virtual : knowledge management and transformation of the distributed organization AU - Klobas, Jane E. AU - Jackson, Paul D. PY - 2008 SN - 1281344176 9786611344177 3790819581 3790819573 PB - Heidelberg ; New York : Physica-Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Knowledge management. KW - Virtual reality in management. KW - Electronic commerce. KW - Cybercommerce KW - E-business KW - E-commerce KW - E-tailing KW - eBusiness KW - eCommerce KW - Electronic business KW - Internet commerce KW - Internet retailing KW - Online commerce KW - Web retailing KW - Commerce KW - Information superhighway KW - Management KW - Management of knowledge assets KW - Information technology KW - Intellectual capital KW - Organizational learning KW - Business mathematics. KW - Organization. KW - Information technology. KW - Business Mathematics. KW - IT in Business. KW - Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). KW - IT (Information technology) KW - Technology KW - Telematics KW - Knowledge management KW - Organisation KW - Arithmetic, Commercial KW - Business KW - Business arithmetic KW - Business math KW - Commercial arithmetic KW - Finance KW - Mathematics KW - Planning. KW - Business—Data processing. KW - Application software. KW - Application computer programs KW - Application computer software KW - Applications software KW - Apps (Computer software) KW - Computer software KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Executive ability KW - Organization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:219471 AB - This book examines the capabilities needed to transform a globally distributed organization into a virtual organization (an organization that exists and operates across time and distance with the support of global communications technologies such as the Internet). It introduces techniques for definition of goals for virtualization, for monitoring progress toward virtualization and for studying the impact of virtualization on social uncertainty, knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer, organizational memory, transactive memory, communities of practice and organizational commitment, power and control. These techniques are applied in an extended case study of a development aid organization's attempts to use knowledge management for virtualization over a two year period. The multidisciplinary team of authors examines virtualization from points of view ranging from the organizational to the technological to the sociological and psychological. ER -