The Strength of Virtuality in Teams: Social Capital built on Weak Ties

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal

2014

Fervent and agile communication on social networking sites and in virtual organizations provides opportunities for potential issues to trigger individuals into individual action as well as the attraction and mobilization of like-minded individuals into an organization that is both physically and virtually emergent. Examples are the rapid pace of Arab Spring and the diffusion rate of the occupy movement. Previous organizational models lack the representational power to model spontaneous exigencies of a network organization that accounts for rapid rates of dissemination in impromptu networks. This model, therefore, is conceived in a life cycle for a prototypical, emergent networked organization and description of operations therein from formation to dissolution. After describing the life cycle, this article offers insights for a model of a successful emergent organization and an implemented example of a spacecraft organization of satellites.

Section: Fundamental Organizational Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling emergent network organizations

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal

2014

“…By the time the social capital grows inside the SO, the SO will gain structural, relational and cognitive profits. Social capital in an SO gives major changes such as the launch of new strategic plans for providing trust among actors in virtual teams, ties, norms, deep cultural change, and acquisitions [37]. Therefore, the lack of it will lead to dissolution of the SO.…”

Section: Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spontaneous Organizations: Collaborative Computing Model of a Networked Organization

Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

2012

Abstract-In most real life organizations, actions usually occur irrationally among their members which modify the behaviors of the organizations. As in Occupy Wall Street (OWS), for instance, that starts in 2011, and it was ongoing over more than 600 communities since then. Social movement, as in the OWS, frequently detected to increase the network rapidly. Therefore, our attention in this paper is on social networks among agents and their effects on the organization and the others. We show a study of such a movement that we label as Spontaneous Organization (SO). We illustrate a life cycle of the SO from the formation of it until the dissolution while covering some important concepts that case such a huge viral spreading. We present a method that can be used to assign tasks to the agents inside the organization depending on their level of fitness. A simulation for a small example of the real life that mimics a spontaneous organization will be implemented using NetLogo for further validation.Social networks; nontraditional collaboration; multiagent Strategies.

“…By the time the social capital grows inside the organization, the organization will gain structural, relational and cognitive profits. Social capital in an organization gives major changes such as the launch of new strategic plans for providing trust among actors in virtual teams, ties, norms, deep cultural change, and acquisitions [3]. However, the lack of it will lead to dissolution of the organization.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Capital in Virtual Organizations

2012 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems

2012

Abstract-in this fast growing world, rapid alterations in technologies result in having a huge influence on humans' standard of living, increase global opportunities and globalize shareholders' activities. Executives all over the world are expected to utilize the right technology in order to gain the high level of success for their organizations. These executives require sustainable knowledge, techniques and tools that will allow them to continue to advance and remain ahead of the competition in the business environment. In this paper, we consider the techniques that will give a clear analysis of how social capital can be created within virtual teams or organizations and what value is created with the help of social capital. It will help organizations to examine the type of value they already created with social capital and its reflection in the future.