Organizaciones Virtuales

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Gladis Cecilia Villegas Arias

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New Organizational Forms, Modern Organization, Virtual Organizations.

Abstract

Virtual Organizations are new organizational forms originated from both the replacementof face to face communications by remote communications supported by electronic means,and from the accesibility of real time information about the operation of the company, forall employees.This article pursues the following goals: 1) To define virtual organization, review its sociotechnical antecedents and propose a preliminary classification into inter-organizationaland intra-organizational forms.  2) To discuss the characteristics of virtual organizationsand their impact on organizational design, and 3) To compare virtual organizations toother organizational forms.

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