Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy (2 Volumes)

Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy (2 Volumes)

Release Date: November, 2008|Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 1026
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-106-3
ISBN13: 9781605661063|ISBN10: 1605661066|EISBN13: 9781605661070
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Description:

Collaboration among organizations in the digitally connected 21st century society often requires electronic communications within and across fields to facilitate superior outcomes that would not be possible without the power of communication technologies.

The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy offers exhaustive research on collaborations in education, business, and the government and social sectors. Through 50 in-depth research contributions by multidisciplinary scholars from 16 countries, this unique collection identifies areas where previous theories, literature, research methods, and approaches need to be updated to acknowledge the changes now emerging in a digitally connected global economy and society.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Collaborative action research
  • Collaborative commerce
  • Collaborative E-Learning
  • Collaborative Partnerships
  • Collaborative synergy
  • Collective identity
  • Collective memory with community repository
  • Computer mentoring
  • Digital global frontier
  • Digital technology collaboration
  • Distance Education
  • Distributed cognition
  • Electronic Collaboration
  • Electronic commerce adoption
  • E-research collaboration
  • E-social constructivism
  • Global collaboration education
  • Hybrid synergy
  • Inter-cultural learning
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Interorganizational collaboration
  • Networks and communities of practice
  • Online collaborative integration
  • Organizational synergy
  • Relational synergy
  • Technology enhanced collaborative leadership development
  • University techscapes
  • Virtual Classroom
  • Virtual knowledge working
  • Virtual multicultural teams
Reviews & Statements

The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy provides scholars and practitioners of electronic collaboration with a phenomenal set of examples of global collaboration and synergy that cover business, nonprofit, public service, and educational applications. The volume will become a standard reference for those interested in leading, working or conducting research collaboratively across virtual boundaries.

– Dr. Shelley R. Robbins, Capella University, USA

This book brings together theory, research, and analysis that establishes a baseline for scholarship and practice in leveraging technology for collaboration. The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy is a solid resource for any academic library collection.

– Julia Sollien, Director of Capella University Library

The astonishing book is a cornucopia of multicultural riches. It is a huge work that covers a vast swathe of issues in relation to electronic collaboration, set in an equally wide range of different cultural contexts. After persuing this massive book, I am sure every reader will leave it with the sense of a genuine meeting of minds, and will wish for more.

– Anita Pincas, University of London, UK

The Handbook of Research and Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy is a solid resource for any academic library collection, especially those providing access to online resources.

– Julia Sollien, Director of Capella University Library

This book reviews research on collaboration, conflict, and compromise in education, focusing on diverse, multicultural settings.

– Book News Inc. (February 2009)

This represents a herculean effort to coordinate so many authors from around the world... I found this research to be well-balanced with both academically valuable and practically sound research.

– Dr. Gina Hinrichs, Capella University, Lawrence Technological University, and Benedictine Univeristy

This handbook would be a very useful resource for faculty seeking supplemental readings for their students. Both theoretical models and practical implementations are included, and the coverage of examples from around the world make this handbook a particularly valuable and unique resource.

– Joan Lippincott, Associate Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information

This is a true handbook. It is a viable resource for the experienced collaborator or technician, as well as anyone new to the charge of successfully facilitating electroinic collaboration across boundaries. It should be part of every business professional's library as a competency builder and value added resource for them to better contribute to their employers or clients, since all organizations are increasingly reliant on virtual collaboration to conduct even basic business.

– Trina Hoefling, GroupONE Solutions, USA
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Editor/Author Biographies
Janet Salmons has served on the graduate faculty for the Capella University School of Business and Technology since 1999. Her consulting practice, Vision2Lead, Inc. (www.vision2lead.com), supports the development of virtual community and elearning for educational institutions, nonprofit and business organizations. She has extensive experience teaching, training and coaching on topics related to leadership, teamwork, and collaboration. She is a frequent conference and webinar presenter. Current publications include chapters in the Lexicon of Online and Distance Education (2009), Encyclopedia of Information Technology Curriculum Integration (2008), and in Student Plagiarism in an Online World Problems and Solutions (2007). She is author of Online Interviews in Real Time (2009), and Taxonomy of Online Collaboration: Theory and Applications in E-Learning (2009). She earned a PhD in interdisciplinary studies, concentration in educational leadership from Union Institute & University, an MA in policy studies from the State University of New York’s Empire State College and a BS in adult and community education from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University.
Lynn Wilson is executive director of SeaTrust Institute, and principal for the consulting firm OSSIA which facilitates collaborative and strategic processes. She regularly presents at international conferences on environmental, public policy and social issues. Recent presentations: plenary at Littoral 2004 in Aberdeen, Scotland; 2007 Amsterdam Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change; 2008 International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Lynn delivers online courses through regional colleges and nonprofit programs and conducts webinars. She has extensive experience as a policy analyst, legislative advisor, science writer and strategic business consultant. Lynn holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies: Public Policy/Administration from the Union Institute & University, Masters in Journalism with honors from Central State University, BA and graduate study from the University of Oklahoma. Her work appears in Delivering Sustainable Coasts; Connecting Science and Policy (2004), numerous legislative and policy reports, scientific articles in technical and trade publications and business processes guides through ICG’s Technical Publication Series. Lynn serves on advisory and review boards for education, science and the environment including the 2006 NSTC Joint Subcommittee on Science and Technology publication Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the Unites States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade.
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Editorial Advisory Board
The Editorial Board includes scholars and practitioners from each area we cover in the book - Education, Business, Government and Social Sector:
  • Ted Cable, Kansas State University, USA
  • Kate Hussin, Capella University, USA
  • Cole Keirsey, LSI Logic, USA
  • Virginia Moxley, Kansas State University, USA
  • Nancy Settle-Murphy, Guided Insights, USA