Virtual organizations through a relational lens

WMSCI 2005 - The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Proceedings

Volumn 7, Issue , 2005, Pages 329-334

  Corvello, Vincenzo ^a   Migliarese, Piero ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flexibility; Organizational analysis; Organizational Design; Organizational relations; Virtual organization

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBILITY; ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONS; VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION;

CYBERNETICS; INFORMATION SCIENCE;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84867384976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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