This study investigates self-presentation strategies among online dating participants, exploring how participants manage their presentation of self in order to accomplish the goal finding a romantic partner. Thirty-four individuals active on large site participated telephone interviews about experiences and perceptions. Qualitative data analysis suggests that attended small cues online, mediated tension between impression management pressures desire present an authentic sense through tactics...

This article examines the key global, environmental and policy factors that act as determinants of e-commerce diffusion. It is based on systematic comparison case studies from 10 countries--Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, United States. finds B2B seems to be driven by global forces, whereas B2C more a local phenomenon. A preliminary explanation for this difference competition MNCs "push" their suppliers, customers, subsidiaries. in turn creates...

Enterprise social network sites (ESNSs) are increasingly being introduced into large multinational organizations. In this article, we consider their potential for supporting knowledge-sharing practices within the organization. First, build on prior work affordances by applying notions of collective and organizing to study media, theorize how ESNSs may provide organizational knowledge sharing in distributed organizations particular. Second, articulate ways which ESNS shape through...

Virtual work is the new normal, with employees working from dispersed locations and interacting using computer-mediated communication. Despite growth in virtual research, it has tended to occur siloes focused on different types of (e.g., teams telecommuting) that are grounded research traditions. This limits opportunities leverage across these domains. We use a co-citation analysis examine degree segmentation field into disparate clusters. find emergence three major clusters: telecommuting,...

This study explores the ways in which affordances of social media not only increase open communication and knowledge sharing, but also promote covert behavior, creating dialectical tensions for distributed workers that must be communicatively managed. Drawing on a case engineering division high tech start-up, we find our participants navigate visibility-invisibility, engagement-disengagement, sharing-control strategically manage these to preserve both openness ambiguity. These findings...

In this manuscript we explore the ways in which marketplace metaphor resonates with online dating participants and how conceptual framework influences they assess themselves, others, make decisions about whom to pursue. Taking a approach enables us highlight participants’ language shapes their self-concept interactions potential partners. Qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews 34 from large site revealed that was salient for participants, who employed several strategies reflected...

This paper extends the job characteristics model (JCM) to address virtual work design. We argue that effects of critical (task significance, autonomy, and feedback) on psychological states (experienced meaningfulness, responsibility, knowledge results) differ depending two important elements virtuality their interactions with social mechanisms: individual experiences electronic dependence its interaction intimacy copresence identification. Findings across 177 workers from a variety settings...

This article develops and tests a model examining the relationship between firm globalization, scope of e-commerce use, performance, using data from large-scale cross-country survey firms three industries. We find that globalization leads to both greater use improved measured as efficiency, coordination, market impacts. Scope also performance all types. Globalization has differential effects on B2B B2C e-commerce, however, such highly global are more likely do but less B2C. Our findings...

Collaborating across boundaries is important for organizational innovation, but it poses a key challenge large, distributed organizations. New technologies such as enterprise social media (ESM) are often heralded their open infrastructure, democratic nature, and ability to break down traditional hierarchies barriers communication; thus, tools may be expected play role in facilitating cross-boundary interaction. Usage patterns likely shaped by existing cultural factors within the national...

Research on online communities has emphasized the individual benefits of social support for members, but less is known about how such are regulated through organizing processes and control. Drawing a survey 214 members particular message board community, we develop test model support, strength ties, normative influence, concertive control their influence members’ sense virtual community (SOVC). We find that all four factors predict SOVC, have strongest effects. Furthermore, mediate effects...

The implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in work is increasingly common across industries and professions. This study explores professional discourse around perceptions use intelligent technologies the legal industry. Drawing on institutional theory, we conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with professionals semi-professionals varying roles including lawyers, law librarians, staff (paralegals, document clerks), students. Their discursive accounts provided evidence for three...

Organizational awareness has been viewed as a critical factor in facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing, particularly among dispersed workers. Drawing on the findings of three studies, we disentangle complex nature organizational awareness, with focus its role distributed sharing. First, developed validated an scale to investigate multidimensional construct that consists availability task social awareness. Second, employing scale, examined relationships use enterprise media (ESM),...

Abstract Global workers have long contended with the challenges of working across geographical, temporal, and cultural boundaries enabled by communication technologies. However, global work research has rarely intersected literature on work–home boundary management—which been brought to forefront due forced move remote during Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing a qualitative field study 55 in-depth interviews from large organization headquartered in Nordics, we found that drew sociomaterial...

ABSTRACTThe abrupt transition to remote learning during the first year of COVID-19 pandemic created considerable work-life boundary challenges for college students. Grounded in management theory, this study utilizes an explanatory sequential mixed-methods approach, incorporating both a survey and subsequent focus groups, explore dynamics permeability, communication, conflict, exhaustion. Both traditional underrepresented students were included, highlighting experiences these distinct...

Global offshoring has become a key strategy for international staffing, especially in the software industry. teams engage boundary spanning activities that may help MNEs achieve connectivity and cope with external disruptions through their use of virtual work. However, IT professionals who bridge these boundaries must contend discontinuities, or perceived expected communication flows, which impact job satisfaction. Drawing on survey data from 193 professional consultants an services MNE...

Implementing social media in the workplace may make it easier for employees to participate knowledge sharing activities such as Q&A and ideation. However, vetting quality of answers ideas becomes more complex when anyone company can contribute. Research on use has shown that certain characteristics reputation algorithms help determine best answers. Less is known about ideation process way plays out media. This paper explores enterprise (ESM) by a large Russian organization distributed across...