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
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