Shaping organization form : communication, connection, and community / Gerardine DeSanctis, Janet Fulk, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Articulation of communication technology and organizational form / Janet Fulk and Gerardine DeSanctis -- In search of a new organizational model : lessons from the field / Lynda Applegate -- Communication technology for global network organizations / Peter Monge and Janet Fulk -- The role of information technology in the transformation of work : a comparison of post-industrial, industrial, and proto-industrial organization / Susan J. Winter and S. Lynne Taylor -- Shaping electronic communication : the metastructuring of technology in the context of use / Wanda J. Orlikowski ... [et al.]. -- Incentives and computing systems for team-based organizations : a complementarity perspective / Anitesh Barua, C.-H. Sophie Lee, and Andrew B. Whinston -- Communication across boundaries : work, structure, and use of communication technologies in a large organization / Pamela Hinds and Sara Kiesler -- Social context and interaction in ongoing computer-supported management groups / Michael H. Zack and James L. McKenney -- Constructing the networked organization : content and context in the development of electronic communications / Martin Lea, Tim O'Shea, and P. Fung -- Perspective making and perspective taking in communities of knowing / Richard J. Boland, Jr. and Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi -- Improving interorganizational effectiveness through voice mail facilitation of peer-to-peer relationships / Mary R. Lind and Robert W. Zmud -- Hardwiring weak ties : interorganizational computer-mediated communication, occupational communities, and organizational change / Jeanne M. Pickering and John Leslie King -- The kindness of strangers : usefulness of electronic weak ties for technical advice / David Constant, Lee Sproull, and Sara Kiesler -- The dark side of the new organizational forms / Bart Victor and Carroll Stephens -- Organizational challenges for the new forms / Marshall Scott Poole -- The virtual organization : tele-access in business and industry / William H. Dutton -- Conclusion : research issues and directions / Gerardine DSanctis and Janet Fulk.