Information Systems and Technology in the International Office of the Future

A Scope and Aims.- 1 Global Inc: an experiment across time and space.- B Full papers.- 2 Working with groups using groupware: electronic problem structuring and project management support for face to face and dispersed organizational groups.- 3 The information superhighway: an on-ramp to global markets for Austrian corporations?.- 4 An IBIS-based model to support group discussions.- 5 Measuring the impact of communication technology on group decision making.- 6 An intemet realtime conference: design, experience and future application.- 7 Telecommunication and an information infrastructure in China.- 8 Cultural factors in the adoption and use of GSS.- 9 Operating systems for the multimedia office of the future.- 10 An analysis of IT platform and organizational requirements for multimedia cooperation on the internet: a case study on the international office of the future.- 11 Meetings bloody meetings — a transition in the concept of meeting as technology reduces dependency on time and geography.- 12 The windmills of our minds: a workshop on culture clash in CSCW.- 13 Using the information superhighway to support organizational learning: content, context and infrastructure.- 14 Dual information systems for organizational working and learning — the business and breakdown layers.- 15 Towards a common architecture paradigm for the global application of information technology.- 16 The conference/classroom of the future — an interdisciplinary approach.- 17 An example of the use of WWW as a tool and environment for research and collaboration.- 18 An electronic social space for consultation and collaboration.- 19 The office tyrant: abuse of power through e-mail.- 20 Distributed work and client/server computing: issues from the field.- 21 Development decision centers — astrategy to improve development decision-making.- 22 Culture-building in action: developing a vision for Global Inc..- 23 Action learning: preparing workers for the international office of the future.- C Extended Abstracts.- 24 Teamwork training for mobile interdisciplinary teams.- 25 Globalisation of information systems in Australian organizations.- 26 DecisionWeb: a tool for asynchronous meeting support.- 27 A culturally sensitive model of technology and groups: focus on group support systems.- 28 Subject areas for teaching GSS facilitation.- 29 The impact of physical environment on performance and satisfaction in the white collar office: an overview of the literature.- 30 The virtual office in practice: a case study.- D Panel Summaries.- 31 Making diffusion and adoption issues part of the design options and solution strategies for the international office of the future.- 32 When we can’t get together: how large is the “value added” of video-conferencing over computer-conferencing.- 33 The international office worker of the future.- 34 Round the clock work: the organisational issues.- 35 Round the clock work: the technology issues.- 36 Future environments.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.