Description: Collaboration among organizations in the digitally connected 21st century society often requires electronic communications within and across fields to facilitate superior outcomes that would not be possible without the power of communication technologies. The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy offers exhaustive research on collaborations in education, business, and the government and social sectors. Through 50 in-depth research contributions by multidisciplinary scholars from 16 countries, this unique collection identifies areas where previous theories, literature, research methods, and approaches need to be updated to acknowledge the changes now emerging in a digitally connected global economy and society. Coverage: The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to: • Collaborative action research • Collaborative commerce • Collaborative E-Learning • Collaborative Partnerships • Collaborative synergy • Collective identity • Collective memory with community repository • Computer mentoring • Digital global frontier • Digital technology collaboration • Distance Education • Distributed cognition • Electronic Collaboration • Electronic commerce adoption • E-research collaboration • E-social constructivism • Global collaboration education • Hybrid synergy • Inter-cultural learning • Interdisciplinary Collaboration • Interorganizational collaboration • Networks and communities of practice • Online collaborative integration • Organizational synergy • Relational synergy • Technology enhanced collaborative leadership development • University techscapes • Virtual Classroom • Virtual knowledge working • Virtual multicultural teams. © 2009 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.
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