"This book combines comprehensive research related to e-collaboration in modern organizations, emphasizing topics relevant to those involved in initiating and managing distributed projects. Providing authoritative content, it describes issues that have implications for distributed project...

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 provides a snap shot of a global perspective of the diversity of practices adopted to successfully develop, implement, deliver and re-invigorate undergraduate and postgraduate Work Integrated Learning (WIL) focused programs in engineering, the built environment and information...

The technological innovation of information technology is driving businesses and organizations to reassess their structures and processes to achieve a higher level of efficiency and effectiveness using IT. In this ongoing process, the wisdom and experiences of other organizations can be a...

This book addresses competencies as a key observable workplace behavior, driving learning and knowledge dissemination processes inside organizations providing information on implementing or improving competency-based approaches to e-learning.

This book covers the interactions between human language and communication technologies. Containing extensive research and analysis, this collection examines the practical implications and applications of how computers can be used to process natural languages for the design of communication...

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.

Competitive intelligence (CI) is about gathering and analyzing environmental information for strategic purposes. To gather and analyze this information, information and communication technology (ICT) is an invaluable tool. Examples are: the Internet, data warehouses or specific applications for...

With the growth and advancement of digital communication technology over the past decade and the advent of modern telecommunications and the Internet, the structure of human behavior and social interaction has been redesigned. This handbook is a compendium of over 50 scholarly works on discourse...

Although it has become commonplace for users and organizations alike to regularly collaborate during the seeking, searching, retrieval and use of information, a definitive work on the behaviors, practices, and systems that enable this collaborative information behavior has been lacking. This...