This book explores the construction of beneficial e-collaborative knowledge environments from four vital perspectives: educational, psychological, organizational, and technical. It offers several scenarios where the implementation of e-collaborative knowledge construction is necessary and then...

This book reviews innovations and trends in virtual organizations. Topics include knowledge creation and management, virtual customer networks, e-commerce, and virtual communities, offering analysis of the full spectrum of technologies, applications, practices, and outcomes within this field.

"This book contributes to the understanding of how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international environment. It describes academic work in the field of Knowledge Management, with a specific focus on the management of knowledge which cannot be managed by the normal...

This book addresses the emergent research and development issues for the most-advanced enterprise organizational paradigm of today's world: the virtual enterprise paradigm. Virtual enterprise is characterized as a dynamic agile network of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including...

Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon and by definition work across time, distance, and organizations through the use of information and communications technology. This book gathers the best of academic research on real work-based virtual teams into one book. It offers a series of...

"This book deals with risk management in enterprise network formations, stressing the importance of risk management in enterprises organized in networks followed by the presentation of the researcher suggested approaches which most of the time emphasizes in a supply chain"--Provided by publisher.

"This book focuses on business process improvement, a key element of the most influential management movement since the 1980s, and how process improvement affects organizational knowledge sharing"--Provided by publisher.

"This book explains the infrastructures and technologies to support technology and information integration standards and protocols. It highlights the social dimension, including human resources management, human resources integration, social issues, social impact, social requirements, and...

In the new millennium, the competence of most organizations will depend on innovative deployment of new technologies for effectively managing knowledge networks for organizational performance. Many such "virtual" organizations using information and knowledge as their fundamental bases are...