Teleworking has, today, become a necessity for many organizations, so effective virtual team management is critical. This study analyzes the influence of the personality traits of virtual team workers on team efficiency. To do so we examine the effects of subordinates' personalities on the trust...

Background: Performance frameworks are common ways to guarantee the success of a collaboration by assessment/improvement of the organisations. However, collaborative performance in recurring collaborations (RC) and temporary ones (TC) are being measured differently due to their inherent...

We develop a virtual tokamak platform choosing KSTAR tokamak as the target device. The Unity® game engine is employed to visualize the KSTAR main device. It is shown that with a proper reduction of the CAD data, a fast and interactive display of the device can be achieved in personal computer....

Purpose: Against the backdrop of the increased prevalence of telework practices as a result of Covid-19, the purpose of the present article is to address the conceptual confusion, overlap and ambiguity characterising much of the published literature in this domain through the development of an...

Information and communication technology (ICT) challenges traditional assumptions about the capacity to manage workers beyond organizational and physical boundaries. A typology connects a variety of non-traditional work organizations made possible by ICT, including offshoring, outsourcing,...

La crisis causada por la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) tuvo un gran impacto en la economía y los mercados laborales regionales durante 2020. El año finalizó con una caída del PIB del 7,1%, que se tradujo en una marcada pérdida de empleos y un aumento de la tasa de...

Fueled in part by the wealth recently created from digital currencies, major art dealers such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s have embraced the sale of non-fungible tokens attached to unique digital works of art. What are non-fungible tokens, how is this related to the blockchain and what do we...

First generation cyberlaw scholars were deeply influenced by the uniqueness of cyberspace, and believed its technology and scope meant it could not be controlled by any government. Few still ascribe to this utopian vision. However, there is now a growing body of second generation cyberlaw...

Technological advancements and government initiatives have aided the development of mobile payment. Technical up gradation made mobile users enable to make transactions using their mobile devices in few clicks. With the use of the electronic payment, one can buy goods or avail services without...

Virtual valuations appear frequently in information economics and implicitly measure atrade-off between the revenue gain from altering the allocation to a current type vis-a-vis the `knock-on' effect of revenue loss resulting from incentive compatibility changes to the allocation of `higher'...

Virtual worlds have become increasingly more important, and are being used for a large variety of recreational and business activities. Various companies have opened virtual offices and brand ambassador spaces, and the recent surge in online interactions has further increased the interest in...

The Management education has gain significant demand in present scenario. The Professional, self-motivated and innovative Managers have been required in every segment of economy. However, the academic world has been emphasizing more on theoretical education of the managers than practical...

In the field of economics, hysteresis refers to an event in the economy that persists into the future, even after the factors that led to that event have been removed. The coronavirus pandemic (or COVID-19) had such an effect, one that will last even after humankind finds a means to purge it. In...

GitLab is a software company that works "all remote" at the scale of more than 1000 employees located in more than 60 countries. GitLab has no physical office and its employees can work from anywhere they choose. Any step of the organizational life of a GitLab employee (e.g., hiring, onboarding...

World Bank Group President David Malpass explained the World Bank Group's work to take broad swift action to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. He spoke about finalizing an additional package that will focus on the broader economic consequences. He was concerned about the poor and densely...

Virtual markets allow consumers to save time costs to purchase goods and services. Countries lose relative to the conventional welfare gain when they increase consumption of non-virtual goods under free trade. We include the classical gains from trade theorem as a special case. For two identical...

In the light of ICT revolution, horizontal organizational structures and team-based work units have become more prevalent in global businesses and resulting rise of outsourcing industry. This study tested the extent of the virtuality of teams in Global Outsourcing Sector, and identified their...

Although economists have long suggested that the privatization of land is one to solution to the tragedy of the commons, we observe that drawing a parcel boundary in fact often creates commons and anticommons for concurrent (spatially overlapping) natural resources. The property law doctrine of...

Patent marking is used by patentees to provide a form of notice to the public about the existence of a patent and can increase damages awarded in cases of infringement. Historically, marking is done by listing the associated patents on the product they cover. Virtual patent marking (VPM), or web...

Even though many people have found today's commonly used videoconferencing systems very useful, these systems do not provide support for one of the most important aspects of in-person meetings: the ad hoc, private conversations that happen before, after, and during the breaks of scheduled...

"The book focuses on emerging technologies and tools for collaboration in virtual environments, and includes the most new findings in in Automation, Computing and Intelligent Information Systems, as well as state-of-the-art solutions covering various issues and challenges"--

Previous research has shown that virtual work provides benefits to individual employees (e.g. less stress, higher job satisfaction, and higher productivity), the organization (e.g. lower real estate costs and higher commitment and performance) and, potentially, society at large (less traffic,...