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

• Authors: Fernando A. Crespo , Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu , Linet Özdamar , Gerhard Wilhelm Weber
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Virtual organization; Virtual community; Operational Research; Societies; EURO

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 228-235

Dates

published

2012-10-01

received

accepted

online

2012-10-31

Contributors

author

Fernando A. Crespo

• Universidad de Valparaíso, Brigadier de la Cruz 1050, Santiago, Chile

author

Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu

• Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Avenue, 02215 Boston, MA, USA
• The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA,

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Linet Özdamar

• Yeditepe University, Industrial and Systems Engineering, 26 Ağustos Yerleşimi Kayışdağı Cad., 34755 Kayışdağı, Istanbul, Turkey

author

Gerhard Wilhelm Weber

• Institute of Applied Mathematics (UME), Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ), 06531 Ankara, Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-012-0023-3