Organizational Memory Building Blocks of Virtual Organizations

Author

Beig, Leila ; Ghavamifar, Atefeh

Author_Institution

ICT Minist. of Iran, Tehran

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Given the literature on the emerging form of virtual organization (VO) and the importance of organizational memory (OM) in these modern organizations, the contribution of this paper is to identify building blocks of OM in VOs. The exploration of this area has been conducted through a literature review of OM and VOs. Firstly, the paper provides a discussion of the characteristics and organizational elements of VOs found in the literature. Secondly, different OM models presented are discussed. Finally a conceptual model of building blocks of OM in VOs will be presented.

Keywords

organisational aspects; virtual enterprises; virtual storage; net broker memory; organizational memory building blocks; project memory; virtual organizations; Books; Collaboration; Communications technology; Companies; Costs; Information technology; Internet; Modems; Virtual enterprises; Virtual manufacturing; net broker memory; organizational memory; project memory; virtual organizations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Damascus

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1751-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1752-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4530308

Filename

4530308