VOSS: Virtual organizations in action: Understanding socio-technical systems through changes in structure and technology

VOSS：行动中的虚拟组织：通过结构和技术的变化了解社会技术系统

• 批准号: 1122286
• 负责人: Jonathon Cummings
• 金额: $ 39.99万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1122286&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Virtual; organizations; action; Understanding

Virtual organizations are groups of individuals whose members and resources may be distributed geographically and structurally, yet who function as a coherent unit through the use of collaborative technology. In the context of business, virtual organizations offer the promise of growth and innovation through flexible and fluid structures, yet employees face the challenge of managing coordination costs as a result of the dynamic and evolving work. New collaborative technologies, such as those that facilitate communication and knowledge sharing as well as social media and task integration capabilities, offer coordination benefits that could counter, and possibly exceed, the coordination costs that arise from working in virtual organizations.Through qualitative interviews of individuals and an online survey of working groups, this project will: (a) define and measure features of organization structure, collaborative technology, and workflow outcomes in a range of structures (including virtual organization structures) within a business organization adopting a new and emergent organizational structure, (b) describe the consequences (positive and negative) of different organization structures and collaborative technologies in terms of their impact on workflow outcomes, and (c) create a public web-based resource that can be used by the organizational and technology communities to better understand the kinds of structures and technologies that affect workflow outcomes.Research on the intersection of virtual organization structures and collaborative technology is still in its infancy. Data collected from this unique empirical setting will provide critical insight into how new structures and new technologies influence each other as well as workflow outcomes. In addition to furthering scientific understanding of virtual organizations, a potentially transformative outcome of this research is facilitating understanding of virtual organizations for science, education, healthcare, and other types of organizations. Moreover, study results can be incorporated into the design and testing of collaborative technology, which could contribute to new advances in tools to support distributed work.

虚拟组织是个人的群体，其成员和资源可以在地理和结构上分发，但通过使用协作技术而充当连贯的单位。在业务背景下，虚拟组织通过灵活而流动的结构提供了增长和创新的承诺，但由于动态和不断发展的工作，员工面临管理协调成本的挑战。新的协作技术，例如促进沟通和知识共享的技术以及社交媒体和任务集成能力，提供协调收益，可能会抵触，可能超出在虚拟组织中工作的协调成本。通过自然访谈的个人访谈以及对工作组的在线调查，该项目将定义和衡量组织结构的范围：（a），包括：（a），包括组织结构的范围：（a），包括组织结构（a）。结构）在一个采用新的新兴组织结构的企业组织中，（b）描述不同组织结构和协作技术对工作流程成果的影响的后果（积极和负面），以及（c）创建基于Web的资源，创建一个可以通过组织和技术社区来更好地理解技术和技术的构造的基于Web的资源，以使技术和技术的构造依靠工作。它的婴儿期。从这种独特的经验环境中收集的数据将为新结构和新技术如何相互影响以及工作流程结果提供重要的见解。除了进一步了解虚拟组织的科学理解外，这项研究的潜在变革结果是促进对科学，教育，医疗保健和其他类型组织的虚拟组织的理解。此外，研究结果可以纳入协作技术的设计和测试，这可能有助于支持分布式工作的工具的新进展。