From Virtual Organization to E-Business: Transformational Structuration
نویسندگان
چکیده
This article shows how the technical hype of 1990s has been transformed into the e-business organizations at the beginning of the 21st century. The authors took an interpretive stance in this study, grounded theory, and investigated the ontology of virtual organization by the metaphorical analysis. The metaphorical analysis adopted in this study provides the analytical power to conceptualize the social structure of virtual organization in the context of structuration theory with the process of grounded theory. As the e-business structuration indicates in this study, virtualization, the metaphor of virtual organization is interpreted as flexible domination, where the rational relationships in power distribution with other e-business characterized temporal (virtual) bond with low switching costs.
منابع مشابه
The Virtual Organization: Evidence of Academic Structuration in Business Programs and Implications for Information Science
Virtual forms of organization, including outsourcing, are expected to bring broad, structural transformations to American business. Yet, little is known about the formal response of U.S. Business Schools to the boundary-spanning challenges that virtual organization presents. In this study, key elements of Adaptive Structuration Theory (AST) are utilized as a means to investigate the effects of ...
متن کاملStructuration Theory: Capturing the Complexity of Business-to-Business Intermediaries
This chapter argues that the three most commonly used perspectives in conducting research on business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce-transaction cost economics, electronic market hypothesis, and network analysis-have inadequately explained the unfolding nature of how B2B intermediaries are being employed in industry today. We argue that these perspectives are insufficient because they assume that ...
متن کاملAn Exploration on the Relationship of Transformational leadership, Innovation Atmosphere and E-Commerce Organization Innovation
In the knowledge economy, the innovation already became the motivation of foundation for organization growth, especially for E-commerce organizations. Business organizations should consider how their organizational innovations for all aspects of resource optimization to increase efficiency. The purpose of this study is to build some conceptual models in transformational leadership, innovation a...
متن کاملAn Analytic Model for Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams
The Organization Readiness of Engineering Project Management Based on Virtual Teams has been analyzed in an Iranian Engineering firm. Adapting and analyzing the latest readiness model, experts’ opinions were received by questionnaires and main criteria of the readiness have been identified. The considered readiness criteria are: Infrastructure, Deliverables (Drawings, Reports, Minutes of Meeti...
متن کاملEffect of Transformational Leadership and its Components on Organizational Innovation
This study tries to expand the understanding of the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational innovation at the organizational level. This research proposes a conceptual framework to explain the components of transformational leadership while focusing on the relationship between each component and organizational innovation. A sample of 219 managers from 63 companies in...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- IJEBR
دوره 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010