IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

Succeeding in the Virtual World: How Relationships Add Value on the Web

Succeeding in the Virtual World: How Relationships Add Value on the Web
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Diana Burley Gant (Indiana University, USA)
Copyright: 2001
Pages: 9
Source title: Our Virtual World: The Transformation of Work, Play and Life via Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Laku Chidambaram (University of Oklahoma, USA)and Ilze Zigurs (University at Colorado at Boulder, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-878289-92-6.ch006

Purchase

View Succeeding in the Virtual World: How Relationships Add Value on the Web on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

In this chapter, we explore why organizations create Web links to other organizations by looking at the set of relationships among a group of disaster response organizations. We discuss how these organizations add value to their Web sites by using use Web links to reinforce their interorganizational relationships – solidifying exchange relationships and promoting normative ones. Our observations deal primarily with the set of organizations responding to the 1996 flooding in western Pennsylvania. For these organizations, we compare the relationships displayed on the Web to those reported between the organizations during the actual disaster response. This comparison allows us to draw conclusions about why the organizations created Web links and how they use these links to manage their interorganizational relationships and add value to their Web sites

Related Content

K. Muthamil Sudar. © 2027. 26 pages.
Indranil Saha, Anuva Aggarwal, Taher Aurangabadi, Zeesha Mishra. © 2027. 36 pages.
Qais Al-Na'amneh. © 2027. 24 pages.
Zeesha Mishra, Dhruvika Bansal, Garvit Bajaj. © 2027. 42 pages.
Amrutha Kolhar, Sridevi. © 2027. 32 pages.
Jorge A. Ruiz-Vanoye, Ocotlán Díaz-Parra, Jaime Aguilar-Ortiz, Francisco R. Trejo-Macotela, Eric Simancas-Acevedo. © 2027. 38 pages.
Semila Fernandes, Anshul Dhunna. © 2027. 40 pages.
Body Bottom