Abstract
The private “owned” office in a designated workplace is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. “Alternative officing” or “activity settings” are the terms used for new approaches to how, when, and where people work. Work has evolved from the place you go, to the thing you do. This is unnerving to some people because a “work place” has been important in forming an individual’s occupational identity and attributes status to their work. However, as the virtual office replaces the traditional office, we will be working with, and managing, people whom we do not see and whom we do not know personally. They will be in a plethora of workplaces distributed in different locations in a variety of settings. Where information is the raw material of work, it is not necessary that all the people involved in a task be in the same place at the same time.
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Handy (1995).
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Callahan, Schenk, and White (2008).
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Jarvenpaa, Knoll, and Leidner (1998). Also, Jarvenpaa and Leidner (1999). Also see Bruhn (2001), especially Chapters 4 and 5.
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Apgar (1998).
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Klein and D’Aunno (1986).
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Carpenter (2010).
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Ashkenas, Ulrich, Jick, and Kerr (2002).
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Nirenberg (1993).
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For an excellent discussion of organizations as communities, see Brown and Duguid (1991).
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Bruhn, J.G. (2011). Virtual Connections in New Work Environments. In: The Sociology of Community Connections. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1633-9_12
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