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Different Conceptual Approaches to Virtual Organization

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Organisation and Work Beyond 2000

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A central topic in the research on telework of the author has been that of management resistance to the issue (Suomi-Pekkola 1998). I have tried to find reasons for this resistance through many directions: from hostile organizational cultures towards telework (Suomi-Pekkola 1999), from the non-cooperative relationship between employees and their managers (Suomi 1999), and even from the limited mind-sets of managers (Suomiet al1998). In this chapter this mission is continued: this time the issues of missing social innovation and standardization are taken up.

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  1. Turku School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland

    Reima Suomi

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  1. Linköping University, Campus Valla, Linköping, 581 83, Sweden

    Birger Rapp

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    Paul Jackson

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Suomi, R. (2003). Different Conceptual Approaches to Virtual Organization. In: Rapp, B., Jackson, P. (eds) Organisation and Work Beyond 2000. Contributions to Management Science. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57346-0_8

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