E-Collaboration

Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy

Online collaboration is transforming the way we work together. Whether partnering across organizations or teaming within organizations, people collaborate online to accomplish shared goals. To gain new understandings of these changes, researchers are exploring new collaborative practices and their impacts. The IGI Global Reference publication, a Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy, presents a diverse collection of these studies.

The Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy provides a cross-sector, interdisciplinary exploration of collaboration practices. The handbook examines structure, organization, technology tools and leadership practices that characterize successful collaboration in and across the fields of education, public policy, and business.

In this book we highlight the electronic aspects, applications and issues surrounding collaboration and organizational synergy. The focus of the handbook is on the set of strategic, cross-cultural, team and technical skills required to collaborate and achieve organizational synergy in the age of the Internet and a digitally connected 21st century global society.

Editors Janet Salmons, Ph.D. and Lynn Wilson, Ph.D. draw on their scholarly and practical experience with inter-organizational and intra-organizational collaborations in the fields covered in the handbook.