New Global
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| Katarina Stanoevska Project Coordinator (email) MCM Institute, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
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| Marcel Bijlsma coordinator dissemination activities (email) Telematica Institute, The Netherlands |
- New Global Flyer
- New Global Conceptual Framework and Review of State-of-the-Art in Research and Practice
- New Global Case Design and Instruments
- New Global Survey Design and Instruments
- New Global Research Framework
- New Global Slide set: Definitions and concise state-of-the-art
- New Global Policy and Strategy Working Paper
16 September 2008, New Global Roundtable, Policies and Strategies Fostering Global Collaboration of European Companies, NCI Business Center, Bruxelles. You can register here and the agenda you can find here
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Coming event 16 september: New Global Roundtable on Policies and Strategies Fostering Global Collaboration of European Companies, NCI Business Center, Bruxelles. Please see the agenda
[edit] Abstract
New Global: Globalisation and new collaborative working environments
Increased maturity of broadband technologies and ubiquitous/ambient computing are providing advanced opportunities for an emerging generation of networked collaborative working environments (NWE). These have the potential to substantially boost the effectiveness and productivity of working processes at the individual, office, team, and (inter-)company level. However, not much is known yet about the critical factors that will decide about the success of NWE, how collaboration across nations and continents will impact on the European economy, and what both mean in terms of demand for specific EU policy-making. This is a deeply unsatisfactory situation, as public debate about globalisation related activities of companies is increasingly dominated by reports about massive lay-offs resulting from cross-border relocation of jobs, and other proclaimed negative consequences of globalized production systems.
New Global studies the impacts of globalisation and globalised working environments. The key research questions of the study are:
- How does globalisation affect the way companies are operating (and what does it imply for the role of collaborative work environments)?
- Which are the opportunities for market players provided by globalisation (in particular those that imply a key role for globalised work environments)?
- What are the conditions for European firms to exploit the opportunities of globalised work environments in coping with the related globalisation challenges? How could European policies respond to create the conditions?
In order to answer these questions, New Global performs a holistic study methodology based on:
- literature analysis to systematise and interpret the existing body of knowlege
- interview-based case studies to identify current practices and investigating the business motives underlying global working strategies
- a survey among EU businesses identifying the spread of globalised working.
[edit] Consortium
MCM Institute University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Empirica Gesellschaft für Kommunikations- und Technologieforschung mbH , Germany
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
