The Virtual Team Alliance (VTA): Extending Galbraith’s Information-Processing Model to Account for Goal Incongruency
The Virtual Team Alliance (VTA): Extending Galbraith’s Information-Processing Model to Account for Goal Incongruency
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虚拟团队联盟 (VTA)：扩展加尔布雷思的信息处理模型以解决目标不一致问题
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发表时间：
2005
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1.8
通讯作者：
C. Nass
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作者：
J. Thomsen;R. Levitt;C. Nass
This paper introduces a newComputational organizational analysis and design model, Called the Virtual Team Alliance (VTA), that builds on the Virtual Design Team (VDT) (Jin and Levitt, 1996). VTA extends Galbraith’s framework implemented in VDT in two ways: (1) it addresses less routine tasks with some flexibility in how they are performed, and (2) it treats project participants as teleological professionals with potentially incongruent goals. Because tasks in the VTA model are flexible, differences in goals may influence which solution approach project participants prefer; thus, goal incongruencyCan have profound implications for the performance of project teams. We describe how VTA actorsComprise aComplex system that is endowed with fragments ofCanonical information-processing micro-behavior. TheCanonical micro-behaviors in VTA include exception generation, monitoring, selective delegation of authority, searching for alternatives,Clarifying goals, steamrolling, and politicking. The VTA model simulates the micro-levelCommunication andCoordination behavior of actors within the organization, including the impact of goal incongruency between individual actors, in order to determine the emergent, aggregate project behavior and performance. To Galbraith’s sociological analysis, based on information-processing “organizational physics,” we add new “organizationalChemistry” notions based on social psychological and economic agency theories.
