Communication Patterns as Determinants of Organizational Identification in a Virtual Organization

Batia M. Wiesenfeld; Sumita Raghuram; Raghu Garud

doi:10.1287/orsc.10.6.777

Communication Patterns as Determinants of Organizational Identification in a Virtual Organization

Batia M. Wiesenfeld, Sumita Raghuram, Raghu Garud

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	777-790
Number of pages	14
Journal	Organization Science
Volume	10
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.10.6.777
State	Published - 1999

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Strategy and Management
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Management of Technology and Innovation

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