"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.

Fundamental concepts and theories -- Development and design methodologies -- Tools and technologies -- Utilization and application -- Organizational and social implications -- Managerial impact -- Critical issues -- Emerging trends

"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...

"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,...

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Virtual team leadership and collaborative engineering bring teams, product engineering, and processes into the 21st century through the use of e-collaboration technologies. These powerful tools accomplish work efficiently and effectively, whether communication takes place only through...

1. Achieving world peace through international trade / Ned Kock -- 2. Supporting synchronous collaboration with heterogeneous devices / Axel Guicking, Peter Tandler, Thomas Grasse -- 3. Interpretation of computer based interaction analysis indicators / Tharrenos Bratitsis, Angelique...

1. Synthesizing the research advances in electronic collaboration / James Pick, Nicholas Romano, Narcyz Roztocki -- 2. Internationalization of online professional communities / Martin Yu, Karl Lang, Nanda Kumar -- 3. A reference model for E-collaboration within the dispersed sales force training...

1. From collaborative tools to collaborative working environments / Wolfgang Prinz, Maria Antonia Martinez-Carreras and Marc Pallot -- 2. Towards a reference architecture for collaborative work environments / Vassilios Peristeras ... [et al.] -- 3. Emerging collaboration routines in...

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