A framework is developed for viewing the centralization issues of organizations to consider to what degree a virtual organization may help a firm obtain competitive advantage. Utilizing the concepts of flexibility and synergy, the framework can serve as a guide for practitioners to help determine what degree of synergy and flexibility a given organizational form would bring and what its suggest...

In the current dynamic world where organizations are inserted in, there is no time to postpone businesses due to the lack of support that helps them to establish the required connections with other organizations agilely. In this context, one of the critical issues is the creation of Virtual Organization, when partners have to be selected. This paper addresses a very closely related issue, which...

This paper explores the contemporary fascination with seemingly new, benign and transcendent virtual organizations. The paper extends Gerlach and Hamilton's (2000) investigations into virtuality within the genres of business restructuring and science fiction. The paper unravels a purposeful, enveloping consciousness that masks both neo-liberal fictions and post-modern fantasies dominating the v...

The Virtual Organization (VO) concept has emerged as one of the most promising forms of collaboration among companies by providing a way of sharing their costs, benefits and risks, in order to attend particular demands. Although these advantages, VOs face several risks that need to be identified, measured, and mitigated through a well defined process. In this way, this paper proposes a hybrid D...

Virtual organizations are networked organizations that bind together teams of people that meet and work together through the use of information technology. Such organizations may bring together hundred or perhaps thousands of separate organizational entities. Virtual organizations rely on and traffic in shared information so that the many entities they manage may coordinate their activities eff...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the rate of using standards of designing electronic courses in educational contents of state-virtual universities in iran. the method of the study was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical population was the educational content of electronic courses in state-virtual universities such as university of science and technology, and shiraz university. da...

This article considers the current problem of investigation the specific of specialized catalog of educational virtual communities. Peculiarities of catalogs of virtual communities are formed. This study provides a method of organization of catalog of virtual communities of educational direction. This method is based on a formal model of virtual communities as an environment of information acti...