Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy

Title......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 9
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 16
Foreword......Page 30
Preface......Page 33
Acknowledgment......Page 38
About the Editors......Page 39
E-Research Collaboration, Conflict and Compromise......Page 42
Inter-Organizational E-Collaboration in Education......Page 57
Cultural Issues in Global Collaborative Education......Page 71
The Development of Collaborative Structures to Support Virtual Classes in Small Schools......Page 84
Experiences in Collaboration in Distance Education from the Caribbean, Looking Beyond Electronic......Page 95
Collaboration and Networks: Basis for the Management Based on Knowledge in Education......Page 115
Hybrid Synergy for Virtual Knowledge Working......Page 124
Collaborative Partnerships and the Application of ICTs in Secondary Education in South Africa......Page 144
Technology Leverages a Community University Collaboration......Page 171
Creating Synergy for Inter-Cultural Learning......Page 183
A Training Design for Behavioral Factors in Virtual Multicultural Teams......Page 200
Working Collaboratively on the Digital Global Frontier......Page 218
Engineering for Interdisciplinary Collaboration......Page 233
Back to Basics: Electronic Collaboration in the Education Sector......Page 246
Designing University Techscapes......Page 264
Scholarly Collaboration Across Time Zones......Page 278
Stepping into the Role of Professional Writer......Page 291
Collective Identity and Learning in a Virtual Team......Page 302
E-Social Constructivism and Collaborative E-Learning......Page 321
Social and Distributed Cognition in Collaborative Learning Contexts......Page 336
Modeling the Model for Distributed Learning......Page 353
Capacity of an Electronic Portfolio to Promote Professionalism, Collaboration and Accountability in Educational Learship......Page 369
E-Mail Reflection Groups as Collaborative Action Research......Page 390
Integrating Student Peer Mentoring Online......Page 403
Outcomes of Computer Mentoring......Page 419
Rubric to Determine a Quality Online Discussion Posting......Page 428
Instrumental and Social Influences on Adoption of Collaborative Technologies in Global Virtual Teams......Page 441
Collaborative Synergy and Leadership in E-Business......Page 450
Overview on Information Systems and Tools for Collaborative Enterprise: Business Impacts and Managerial Issues......Page 476
Trust, Social Networks and Electronic Commerce Adoption......Page 493
A Proposition for Developing Trust and Relational Synergy in International e-Collaborative Groups......Page 513
Supporting Inter-Business Collaboration via Contract Negotiation and Enactment......Page 528
The Limits of Anytime, Anywhere Customer Support......Page 541
KMmaster® for Collaboration and Knowledge Management......Page 557
Ultimate Performance in a Highly Functioning Team......Page 572
Globalizing a Function within a Company......Page 587
Integrating Web 2.0 Technologies within the Enterprise......Page 601
An Evaluation of ‘Linking for a Change'......Page 620
Collaboration in the Service of Knowledge Co-Creation for Environmental Outcomes, Science and Public Policy......Page 640
Networked Experiments in Global E-Science......Page 656
ICT to Facilitate Emergency Response in The Netherlands......Page 667
Enhancing Collective Memory with a Community Repository......Page 678
ICT and Tourism Enterprise Collaboration in Rural New Zealand......Page 692
2007 Leadership and Human Resources Training in Rwanda......Page 705
Collaboration through Municipal Motivators......Page 720
Understanding the Dialectic Relationship between Intra- and Inter-Organizational Cooperation......Page 736
Electronic Collaboration Toward Social Health Outcomes......Page 751
Technology Enhanced Collaborative Leadership Development......Page 766
Lessons Learned from the NASA Astrobiology Institute......Page 782
Online Collaborative Integration and Recommendations for Future Research......Page 798
Compilation of References......Page 810
About the Contributors......Page 878
Index......Page 894