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Information Infrastructure and Policy 6 (2000) 197â207 IOS Press E.J.Th. van Hout and V.J.J.M. Bekkers Center for Law, Public Administration and Informatization, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands 1. Introduction âItâs organization Jim, but not as we know itâ Network technology facilitates processes of public organization and public policy making. It is a technical infrastructure which enables and shapes patterns of social organization between individuals, groups and organizations. In this context it is considered a network organization or virtual organization. Virtual organization stands for a range of new patterns of organizing (both the organizational process as well as its policy making functions) based on electronic interaction and communication. These renewed patterns of organizing are hitherto thought of in terms of organizational forms: strictly limited to well deï¬ned organizational borders and restricting the organizational form in a functional, hierarchical, geographical sense. We believe that conceptualizing the concept of organization in terms of these organizational forms is a rather classical and out-dated way of conceptualizing organizations in an electronic environment. Looking at the emergent ways of organizing on for instance the Internet, it is more appropriate to talk about âpatterns of organization and organizingâ. Conceptualizing electronic
Information Infrastructure and Policy – IOS Press
Published: Jan 1, 2000
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