Contribution to the collaborative work in virtual organization - a case study

2012-10-1
Weber, Gerhard Wilhelm
Özdamar, Linet
Pedamallu, Chandra Sekhar
Crespo, Fernando A.
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A virtual organization is a community of people who interact together socially on a technical platform. These kinds of communities are built on a common interest, a common problem or a common task of its members that is pursued on the basis of implicit and explicit codes of behavior. The six dimensions that are normally used to analyze virtual organizations are the use of technologies, sense of belonging, success factors, level of trust from members, virtual community management, and contents of the virtual community. The virtual organizations defined in the literature are not defined separately for non-profit research virtual organization. Here we present analysis of non-profit research virtual organization, European Working Group on Operational Research for Development (EGW ORD). This paper provides a summary of achievements and challenges faced in building a virtual organization. This kind of analysis plays a vital role in establishing new non-profit virtual organizations to serve the research community in their field of interest. It is also helpful to the group in broadening its presence and involving more researchers, practitioners and students in the field of operational research.
Virtual organization, Virtual community, Operational Research, Societies, EURO
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50998
Graduate School of Applied Mathematics, Article

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G. W. Weber, L. Özdamar, C. S. Pedamallu, and F. A. Crespo, “Contribution to the collaborative work in virtual organization - a case study,” Organizacija, pp. 228–235, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50998.
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