Download or read book Virtuality and Virtualization written by Kevin Crowston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book begins with consideration of possible frameworks for understanding virtuality and virtualization. It includes papers that consider ways of analyzing virtual work in terms of work processes. It examines group processes within virtual teams, focusing in particular on leadership and group identity, as well as the role of knowledge in virtual settings and other implications of the role of fiction in structuring virtuality.