Communication Patterns as Determinants of Organizational Identification in a Virtual Organization

Batia M. Wiesenfeld, Sumita Raghuram and Raghu Garud
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Batia M. Wiesenfeld: Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West Fourth Street, New York, New York 10012
Sumita Raghuram: Fordham University, 113 West Sixtieth Street, New York, New York 10023
Raghu Garud: Stern School of Business, New York University, 44 West Fourth Street, New York, New York 10012

Organization Science, 1999, vol. 10, issue 6, 777-790

Abstract: Recent advances in information technologies provide employees the freedom to work from any place and at any time. Such temporal and spatial dispersion, however, weakens the ties that bind organizations and their members. We suggest that organizational identification may be the critical glue linking virtual workers and their organizations. We explore the role that information technologies play in the creation and maintenance of a common identity among decoupled organization members.

Keywords: Virtual Work; Organizational Identification; Communication Media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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