• DocumentCode
    1929783
  • Title

    Social Capital in Virtual Organizations

  • Author

    Alqithami, Saad ; Hexmoor, Henry

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    19-21 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    682
  • Lastpage
    687
  • Abstract
    In this fast growing world, rapid alterations in technologies result in having a huge influence on humans´ standard of living, increase global opportunities and globalize shareholders´ activities. Executives all over the world are expected to utilize the right technology in order to gain the high level of success for their organizations. These executives require sustainable knowledge, techniques and tools that will allow them to continue to advance and remain ahead of the competition in the business environment. In this paper, we consider the techniques that will give a clear analysis of how social capital can be created within virtual teams or organizations and what value is created with the help of social capital. It will help organizations to examine the type of value they already created with social capital and its reflection in the future.
  • Keywords
    knowledge management; organisational aspects; social networking (online); business environment competition; global opportunity; shareholder activity globalization; social capital; sustainable knowledge; virtual organization; virtual team; Companies; Cultural differences; Humans; Standards organizations; Virtual groups; Social capital; Virtual organization; organizational growth; trust;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2012 4th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bucharest
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2279-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/iNCoS.2012.124
  • Filename
    6338006