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Sustainable Virtual Organization: Management Challenges and Development Perspectives

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 11806

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Włodzimierz Sroka

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Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Interests: alliances; network organizations; coopetition; strategic management; M&A; CSR and business ethics
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Prof. Dr. Ieva Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė

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Business Technologies and Entrepreneurship, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Interests: business management; logistics; supply chain management; sustainability; e-logistics
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Prof. Dr. Vida Davidavičienė

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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Interests: e-business, virtual organization, business processes, management, sustainability, business communication in virtual organization
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

An important challenge that faces organizations is change, which can be caused by different factors, such as a recession, a reduction in budget, market pressure, or the development of information and communication technology. New types of businesses have generated such models as virtual teams in contemporary enterprises or virtual organizations as a result of a paradigm shift in their organizational and relationship structure. Virtual structures, developed in response to certain specific organizational needs and market requirements, are suitable for the sustainable development of organizations.

The wide dissemination and effective materialization of the foreseen benefits of sustainable virtual organizations require a holistic approach to understand, model, and develop the needed infrastructures and tools to support the full life cycle of this organizational paradigm. That is why we are organizing this Special Issue, which aims to discuss the challenges of such frameworks from a sustainable virtual organization management and development perspective.

We invite you to contribute to this Issue by submitting comprehensive reviews, case studies, or research articles. Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure, with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications.

Dr. Włodzimierz Sroka
Prof. Dr. Ieva Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė
Prof. Dr. Vida Davidavičienė
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Sustainability
  • Virtual organization
  • Virtual team management
  • Sustainable organization
  • Organizational culture
  • Business communication in virtual organization
  • Sustainable business models
  • Operational solutions
  • Sustainable management in virtual organization
  • Implementation of sustainability criteria for virtual organization
  • E-business
  • Competitive strategies in e-business
  • Consumer behavior in e-business
  • Developing relationships with customers in e-business

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Factors Affecting Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Teams
by Vida Davidavičienė, Khaled Al Majzoub and Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene
Sustainability 2020, 12(17), 6917; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12176917 - 25 Aug 2020
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The development and use of information and communications technology (ICT) are growing at a rapid speed across the world. ICT has been the cause for new types of work arrangements, such as virtual organizations, virtual teams, teleworking, etc. Virtual teams provide organizations with [...] Read more.
The development and use of information and communications technology (ICT) are growing at a rapid speed across the world. ICT has been the cause for new types of work arrangements, such as virtual organizations, virtual teams, teleworking, etc. Virtual teams provide organizations with competitive advantage by enabling them to hire talented people across the world and eliminating the need for physical availability in the office. However, one major issue hindering the productivity of the virtual team is knowledge sharing. The lack of proper knowledge sharing between team members may cause organizations to fail with regards to the implementation of successful strategies. The research into understanding knowledge sharing in virtual teams (VT) in the Middle East is lacking. While such studies have been done in the United States and Europe, the Middle East has been overlooked. In this study, the authors assume that there are some specific behavioral aspects of VT in the Middle East that create the need for specific scientific solutions. Accordingly, this study was conducted in the Middle East in order to gain scientific knowledge on the region’s specificity. The objective of this article is to create a model for the evaluation of the effect on knowledge sharing in virtual teams in the Middle East. For analysis, the selection of companies includes United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based companies in the IT industry whose businesses engage in VT. The results show that the following factors have a direct effect on knowledge sharing in VT: Culture, motivation, conflict, ICT, trust, and leadership. Conversely, the results do not demonstrate that language has any impact on knowledge sharing. The methodology used is as follows: Literature review, survey methods, and structural equation modeling. Full article
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