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Global Inc., the 1997 IFIP WG 8.4 working conference, will operate “round-the-clock” and across the world. It will need a socio-technical infrastructure. Socio aspects include the organisation structure, the work flow, managing different time and different place work, synchronisation and version control, irregular working hours, multicultural teams, workplace management, and dealing with non-standard telecommunication interfaces and tool sets. If we call these the organisational aspects, then the aim of this panel is to surface the organisational issues associated with running Global Inc and to attempt to identify possible strategies for dealing with them. The “technical” aspects will be dealt with later in another panel.
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Glasson, B., Bourque, D. (1996). Round the clock work: the organisational issues. In: Glasson, B.C., Vogel, D.R., Bots, P.W.G., Nunamaker, J.F. (eds) Information Systems and Technology in the International Office of the Future. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35085-1_34
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