Virtual departments, power, and location in different organizational settings

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)



Description :
The electronic space of the virtual department is where tasks related to production function are integrated during reengineering processes, establishing new relationships among hierarchy, location, and power. The study assesses whether the virtual department breaks down or reinforces vertical chains and levels of command spanning many locations within an organizational hierarchy. Reeingineering processes reinforce older hierarchical and spatial structures. They reproduce hierarchical human relations in electronic space, contributing to the formation of heierarchical levels of network access.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Economic geography, issn : 0013-0095, 1997, vol. 73, n°. 4, p. 427-444, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 22 ref.

Date :
1997

Editeur :
Pays édition : Etats-Unis, Worcester, MA, Clark University