Translator: Akira Kawaguchi
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– Forward by Translator
– Profile of Translator
– Preface to Japanese Translation (by Author)
– Foreword (by Murray Turoff)
– Preface
– Chapter 1: Intimations of a New Order
– Chapter 2: Virtual Organization
– Chapter 3: Information Commodities
– Chapter 4: Mobile Capital and Instant Payments
– Chapter 5: Standardized Business Relationships
– Chapter 6: Emerging Virtual Enterprises
– Chapter 7: Privatization of Government, Expatriation of Business
– Chapter 8: A New Political Economy
– Chapter 9: The Virtual Manor: Consumption, Work, and Identity
– Chapter 10: The Virtual Manor: Family and Community
– Conclusion
– Bibliography

November 1, 2005 (Original article date)

Virtual organization presents two different faces to the world. One face reveals an ability to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of management, and to achieve greater flexibility of action. The other shows the dissolution of traditional relationships in the course of realizing these desirable ends. In a word, virtual organization is a disturbing agent of social change and thus provokes ambivalent responses. It is most clearly evident as an innovation in business management, especially within multinational firms and in e-commerce. But virtual organization has implications for society as a whole and is thus treated in this book in its broad social context.

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