Titlebook: Designing Boundary Objects for Virtual Collaboration; Marc Marheineke Book 2016 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016 Qualitative Forschung.D

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Research MotivationIn organizations, processes are increasingly dependent on collaboration. Whereas formerly, collaboration happened across the office ., nowadays, collaboration across the office . has become omnipresent (Reichwald, Möslein, Sachenbacher, & Englberger, 2000). People who execute organizational processes rely on tools for collaboration.

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Research StructureThe present thesis is structured into seven parts, following the aforementioned design science paradigm (Hevner et al., 2004; Peffers et al., 2007). . explains the relevance of the thesis and its research paradigm and structure. Subsequently, in ., the research problem will be empirically explored and grounded with a qualitative data assessment.

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Theoretical UnderpinningIn this chapter, the relevant theoretical constructs for the problem identification are introduced and described in more detail. It consists of three sections that introduce (1) collaboration technology as boundary object; (2) knowledge management in communities; and lastly (3) organizational communities.

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FindingsHaving presented the research approach and a first definition of boundary objects, this section will showcase the findings from the analysed literature. For this reason, boundary objects are clustered according to their impact on the virtual collaboration process. The virtual collaboration process is understood as a socio-technical system.

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Research Backgroundirtual collaboration in communities will be introduced, followed by knowledge boundaries, boundary objects, and shared understanding. A shared understanding is the result of an effective use of boundary objects.

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Needs and Objectivesaboration. Boundary objects are particularly interesting for knowledge sharing because they interconnect individuals from different knowledge domains, similarly to how the Skype app found its way into everyday collaboration by easily and instantly interconnecting members of a community.

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