Revisiting the nature of virtual organizations: reflections on mobile communication systems

摘要

Virtual reality has gaining increasing attention as an emergent and highly significant form of work organization. Discussions on the significance of virtual organizations and how information technology can help organizations to transform themselves away from their tra- ditional physical boundaries have improved our understanding of what virtual organizations are, or what they are not. In this paper, however, we seek to challenge the efficacy of existing views of virtuality by exploring both its potential to be 'real' as well as its potential to be 'organized'. The impact of these potentials on the nature of organization is then discussed with mobile telephony as an exemplar.