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What is Amberfication Paradox

Chapter 88
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Static information resources, media representations, and human-technology communication systems become non-dynamic as soon as they are produced. The paradox is that the more quickly these fixed entities are produced—the quicker they become conceptually and substantively sealed in amber and disconnected from modification, alteration, correction, and change (i.e., off the information grid) as utilities and resources.
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Human Factors for Networked and Virtual Organizations
Vincent E. Lasnik (Independent Knowledge Architect, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch088
Abstract
One of the central problems and corresponding challenges facing the multi-disciplinary field of networked and virtual organizations has been in the construction of theory-grounded, research-based taxonomies for prescribing what particular strategies and approaches should be employed when, how, and in what combination to be most effective and efficient for specific business domains, organizational structures, and enterprise- wide performance objectives.
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