Communication Patterns As Determinants of Organizational Identification in a Virtual Organization

  • Authors:
  • Batia M. Wiesenfeld;Sumita Raghuram;Raghu Garud

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Organization Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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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.