Exploring Virtuality within and beyond Organizations Social, Global and Local Dimensions

In recent years, there has been much interest in the 'virtual'--teams, organizations and communities--in management, research and practice. As technology and social practices change we have more opportunity toexperience different forms of virtuality, and in the process our understanding and conception of virtuality changes.

Niki Panteli is Senior Lecturer in Information Systems at the School of Management, University of Bath, UK.

Mike W. Chiasson is currently a senior lecturer at Lancaster University’s Management School, in the Department of Management Science. Before joining Lancaster University, he was an associate professor in the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary from 1999 to 2006, and he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.