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virtual organizations  

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  • Virtual organizations are composed of employees spread across different locations who perform different jobs and may also have different cultural identities. These dispersed and diverse employees are joined together by communication technologies such as the telephone, fax, e-mail, Internet, and instant messaging. [Source: Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Virtual Organizations]

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