... became quite evident that a more general change was underway in the
work place. The traditional work paradigm was giving way to the emer-
gence of a new one. The traditional and historical view ... (Allen and Meyer 1990).
Up to now little empirical data for mobile virtual work was available. The
meta-analysis (Meyer et al. 2002) shows that affective commitment has an
impo...
...
Communication can be enabled by creating information channels, which
are parts of the social capital and can have a technological or an organiza-
tional nature (Nahapiet and Ghoshal 1998; Gupta and ... organiza-
tional advantage. The Academy of Management Review 23(2): 242–266
Nonaka I (1990) Redundant, overlapping organization: a Japanese approach to
managing the innovation process....
... Information Database
(GRID) computing, and HTML-based collaborative spaces. In summary
the major driving forces towards new ways of working are:
• Changing work patterns and working groups: partnerships ... to-
wards a scenario of work organisation, which is characterized by empow-
erment of workers being part of ad-hoc temporary project teams and net-
worked organisations, and by...
... ACTIVITIES
Tasks and assignments are carried out as practical and
communicative actions
IN enabling and disabling spaces
MENTAL AND SOCIAL SPACES
which are shared common experiences, ideas and ideals based
on ... for new ways of mobile working 3 57
15.5 Introducing mobile collaborative work 3 57
15.6 Towards a roadmap and innovation agenda 361
15.6.1 Future scenarios 361
15.6.2 An...
... Typology of eWork
Coordination mechanism
Principal/agent Collaboration
intra-
organisational
inter-
organisational
intra-
organisational
inter-
organisational
Individualised
eWork
(away from ...
education. Mobile devices are not easily usable for people with manual
disabilities, because screens are small and not easily readable.
TWork-family balance
Work intervenes more and mor...
... a virtual team may
be working from other countries and continents, which means that tradi-
tional working hours are not always suitable.
Poor organisation of mobile and virtual work can lead ... legal concept covers also a large part
of mobile and virtual work, a European legal framework is being built up
at a contractual level. The European Framework Agreement on Tel...
...
at least plan for that unpredictability, taking task-relevant paperwork ‘just
in case’ it is required. Paradoxically, mobilisation work may therefore take
place whilst at a static workplace ... typification of mobile virtual and collaborative work in terms that are
predicated on the technology being available, and therefore necessary, is
dangerous. As well as virtual working...
... past it
was a topic to talk about dynamics between operational attachment to a
certain location and the mobile (but permanently allocated) work force.
With the increasing amount of dynamical ... state of the art and the available appliances of AR are
mostly at a prototype stage and do not yet permit a product-oriented appli-
cation of the technology. However, AR enables a ne...
... Niklas Johansson, Torbjörn Lind and Bengt Sandblad
A set of work tasks that together form a work process can be seen as an
activity. With an activity we here mean a number of activities that are ...
Here, main emphasis is placed on the design of tasks, motivation and col-
laboration in virtual teams as well as the role of operational uncertainty.
Lastly, resources for mobile...
... a vision as regards a plausible and desir-
able development path, and to translate that into a corresponding roadmap
and innovation agenda. Such a vision and roadmap helps decision makers
and ... Moreover, the quality of teamwork has an
important impact not only on performance, but also on job satisfaction in
virtual mobile teams.
Mobile virtual work in practice. A case...