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 provides exploration of the opportunities, benefits and costs associated with virtual work, addressing several communicative, relational and practical issues associated with virtual work"--Provided by publisher.

"This book provides a comprehensive review of the most recent advances in agent and Web service technologies. It provides an integrated view of the most recent contributions which support formation, integration, collaboration, and operation in virtual enterprise. Readers will gain insight from...

"The authors address Agile/Virtual Enterprises as a new organizational paradigm, highly dynamic reconfigurable agile networks of independent enterprises sharing all resources, including knowledge, market, customers, etc., and using specific organizational architectures that introduce the...

"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.

"Using a case study analysis, this book provides a unifying perspective for discussing the viability of collaborative virtual spaces as training programs for insurance brokers, forums to support at-risk university students, simulations of historical places, means to aid autistic children learn...

E-Collaboration promotes interaction between people over the Internet, and is vital in virtual organization arrangements where people co-exist or work together, independent of time and location. E-Collaborations and Virtual Organizations covers a broad range of topics, from underlying...

1. Establishing identification in virtual science museums / Billie Jones -- 2. Free-choice learning research and the virtual science center / Kathryn Goldman, Lynn Dierking -- 3. Contextualized virtual science centers / Andreas Zimmerman, Andreas Lorenze, Marcus Specht -- 4. Starting with what...

"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,...

"This book documents the most relevant contributions to the introduction of networked, dynamic, agile, and virtual organizational models; definitions; taxonomies; opportunities; and reference models and architectures. It creates a repository of the main developments regarding the virtual...