VOSS: Toward a Context Adaptive Theory of the Relationship Between Structural Fluidity and Virtual Organization Performance

VOSS：结构流动性与虚拟组织绩效之间关系的情境自适应理论

• 批准号: 1422982
• 负责人: Sean Goggins
• 金额: $ 21.73万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-11-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1422982&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Toward; Context; Adaptive; Theory

A major advantage of virtual organizations (VOs) is flexible membership and participation. In many VOs, members are able to join and leave at will, and can change whom they collaborate with at any point in time. This flexibility can be a source of increased effectiveness as VO structures are more readily able to adapt to contingencies and VO leadership can evolve over the course of a VO's lifecycle. This project examines the relationship between structural fluidity, VO leadership, and VO performance. The investigators will examine the log data generated by the technical systems used for coordination and information sharing in four different types of VOs (software engineering, disaster relief, online learning, and public discourse communities), will interview VO participants, and will measure VO performance in context-specific ways. The project will: (1) develop tools to measure organizational fluidity and make that fluidity visible to VO participants; (2) examine the relationship between organizational performance, the fluidity of group membership and fluidity of leadership in virtual organizations. The techniques pioneered in this proposal will increase understanding of how to use technical system log data to more quickly identify the most effective social structures and leadership strategies in VOs. The results and tools developed in the course of the project will have practical value for those seeking to improve VO performance for science, industry and government organizations that increasingly rely on virtual organizations for their success. A number of undergraduate and graduate students will participate in the project, furthering their training and education in interdisciplinary research.

虚拟组织 (VO) 的一个主要优势是灵活的成员资格和参与。在许多 VO 中，成员可以随意加入和离开，并且可以随时更改合作对象。 这种灵活性可以成为提高有效性的一个来源，因为 VO 结构更容易适应突发事件，并且 VO 领导力可以在 VO 生命周期中不断发展。 该项目研究了结构流动性、VO 领导力和 VO 绩效之间的关系。 调查人员将检查四种不同类型 VO（软件工程、救灾、在线学习和公共话语社区）中用于协调和信息共享的技术系统生成的日志数据，采访 VO 参与者，并衡量 VO 绩效以特定于上下文的方式。 该项目将：(1) 开发工具来衡量组织流动性，并使 VO 参与者能够看到这种流动性； (2)考察虚拟组织中组织绩效、群体成员流动性和领导力流动性之间的关系。 该提案中首创的技术将增进对如何使用技术系统日志数据更快地识别 VO 中最有效的社会结构和领导策略的理解。该项目过程中开发的结果和工具对于那些寻求提高科学、工业和政府组织的 VO 绩效的人来说具有实用价值，这些组织越来越依赖虚拟组织来取得成功。许多本科生和研究生将参与该项目，进一步加强跨学科研究的培训和教育。