global and distributed Work

 

My research has focused on global and distributed work from 1997 till present. I have studied several topics from: Management issues (remote management); expectations; coordination; communication; learning and knowledge transfer; and tools used for collaboration and communication (virtual worlds are one of those). This work has been performed in collaboration with the following projects (project of ISES, KEES, Extreme Virtuality, VmStan project, ProWork project and ProViWo project)


Publications on geographically distributed work, virtual teams, & new ways of work:


JOURNAL Publications

  1. 1.Petra M. Bosch-Sijtsema, Renate Fruchter, Matti Vartiainen & Virpi Ruohomäki (2011). A framework to analyze knowledge work in distributed teams. Group & Organization Management Journal, 36(3), 275 - 307.  DOI: 10.1177/1059601111403625.

  2. 2.Verburg, R.M., P.M. Bosch-Sijtsema, M. Vartiainen & T. Brodt ( submitted 2010) “Getting it done—the managerial benefits of working in fully virtual project settings. Submitted to International Journal of Project Management. WORKING PAPER

  3. 3.Fruchter, R. & P.M. Bosch-Sijtsema (2011) “The WALL: participatory design workplace supporting creativity, collaboration and socialization,” forthcoming in AI & Society, Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication, 26 (3): 221-232. DOI 10.1007/s00146-010-0307-1

  4. 4.Fruchter, R., P.M. Bosch-Sijtsema & Ruohomaki, V. (2010). Tension between perceived collocation and actual geographical distribution in project teams. International Journal of AI & Society. Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication. 25(2): 183-192. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-009-0254-x

  5. 5.Robert M. Verburg & Petra M. Bosch-Sijtsema Eds.(2007) “Editorial: Limits of virtuality”, special issue of eJOV, The Limits of Virtual Working, 9: 1-8 .

  6. 6.Bosch-Sijtsema, Petra M. (2007) “The impact of individual expectations and expectation conflicts on virtual teams,” in Group & Organization Management, Vol. 32 (3): 358-388. doi: 10.1177/1059601106286881

  7. 7.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. (2006) “Cooperative virtual development projects,” eJOV, Electronic Journal of Organizational Virtualness, special issue, vol. 8: 6-27.

  8. 8.Bosch-Sijtsema, Petra M. (2004) “A knowledge transfer framework for project organizations,” in International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organizations, special issue on knowledge management in virtual organizations, vol. 2 (4): 298-311. DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2004.005732.

  9. 9.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. (2003) “Virtualness: A new organisational dimension. The relationship between virtualness and knowledge,” Labyrint Publication (PhD dissertation series of the SOM research school), Capelle a/d IJssel, the Netherlands, ISBN: 90-5335-010-1

  10. 10.Bosch-Sijtsema, Petra M. (2002) “A structure of roles within virtual organisations,” in International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making (IJITDM) (ISSN: 0219-6220), Vol. 1 (3), special issue on Virtual Organizations and E-commerce Applications (VOECA), pp: 371-384. DOI No: 10.1142/S0219622002000245

  11. 11.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. (2001) “Knowledge development in a Virtual organisation: an Information Processing Perspective,” Licentiate dissertation from Lund University, KFS AB Lund, Sweden.

  12. 12.Bosch-Sijtsema, Petra M. (1997) “Crossing Learning Boundaries. The Utility related Virtual Organisation ISES,” in VoNet 1 (Version 2) (now Electronic Journal of organizational virtualness) (1997) 5 (Dec. 1, 1997).


CONFERENCE ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS:

  1. 1.Mobach, M., Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. (2011). Organizational space and culture in hybrid workspaces. APROS Asia-Pacific Researchers of Organization Studies. Australia, November 2011.

  2. 2.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M., R. Fruchter, M. Vartiainen & V. Ruohomäki (2011). Challenging new ways of working for managers in global collaborative work environments. C. Kelligher and J. Richardson AOM (Academy of Management) symposium, San Antonio, Texas, USA, August 2011.

  3. 3.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M., R. Fruchter, M. Vartiainen & V. Ruohomäki (2011). Challenging new ways of working for remote managers. In: C. Kelliger and J. Richard (Eds.) New ways of Organizing Work: developments, perspectives and experiences. Routledge: London, chapter 11, pp:160-176. ISBN Hardback: 978-0-415-88815-8

  4. 4.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. & R. Fruchter (2010). “Living in the Bee-Hive. Organizational culture differences between HQ and a remote team,” Proceedings of EGOS 2010 conference Lisabon, Portugal.

  5. 5.Niina Nurmi, Petra M. Bosch-Sijtsema & Anu Sivunen & Renate Fruchter (2009) “Who shouts louder: Power dynamics in virtual teams” Proceedings IWIC, International workshop of intercultural collaboration, Stanford. ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm) ACM  978-1-60558-198-9/09/02. doi:10.1145/1499224.1499237

  6. 6.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M., R. Fruchter, V. Ruohomaki & M. Vartiainen (2009) “Challenging new ways of working for remote managers,” proceedings EGOS09 Barcelona.

  7. 7.Fruchter, R. & P.M. Bosch-Sijtsema (2009) “The WALL: participatory design workplace supporting creativity, collaboration and socialization,” Proceedings of Social Intelligence and Design 2009, SID09 conference Kyoto, Japan (November 2009): pp. 174-186.

  8. 8.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M., R. Fruchter, V. Ruohomäki & M. Vartiainen (2009) “Challenging new ways of working for remote managers,” EGOS 2009 (European Group of Organization Science) Barcelona, Spain.

  9. 9.Fruchter, R., P.M. Bosch-Sijtsema & Ruohomaki, V. (2008). Tension between perceived collocation and actual geographical distribution in project teams. Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design, Puerto Rico, December 3-5, 2008.

  10. 10.P.M. Bosch-Sijtsema, V. Ruohomäki & M. Vartiainen (2008) “Knowledge worker mobility: the effect on productivity in the workspace”, proceedings of EGOS conference European Group of Organization Studies, Amsterdam 2008.

  11. 11.Ruohomäki, V.& P.M. Bosch-Sijtsema (2007) “Where does knowledge work take place in the office: an observation method,” proceedings of ACTIVITY2008, Activity Analysis Developing Work, Finland 2008. Verburg, R., P. M. Bosch-Sijtsema & M. Vartiainen (2007) “Coordination requirements and management mechanisms in extreme virtuality,” proceedings of Annual Meeting of Academy of Management 07, Philadelphia, USA.

  12. 12.Petra Bosch-Sijtsema, Torsten Brodt, Robert Verburg, Matti Vartiainen & Erik Andriessen (2006) Why are project managers willing to work in fully virtual settings? Paper presented at Workshop for Limits of Virtuality, Valencia, Spain

  13. 13.Verburg, R., P. M. Bosch-Sijtsema & M. Vartiainen (2007) “Coordination requirements and management mechanisms in extreme virtuality,” proceedings of Annual Meeting of Academy of Management 07, Philadelphia, USA.

  14. 14.Petra Bosch-Sijtsema, Torsten Brodt, Robert Verburg, Matti Vartiainen & Erik Andriessen (2006) Why are project managers willing to work in fully virtual settings? Paper presented at Workshop for Limits of Virtuality, Valencia, Spain.

  15. 15.Bosch, Petra, M. & Sonja Rispens (2004) “Knowledge transfer in virtual teams: A social network approach,” in Sumati Reddy (ed.) “Virtual Teams - Contemporary insights”, ICFAI Books: 136-158.

  16. 16.Bosch-Sijtsema Petra M. & Sonja Rispens (2003) “Facilitating knowledge transfer in virtual teams through a social network approach,” SOM research reports No. 03B31.

  17. 17.Bosch-Sijtsema, Petra M. & Arndt Sorge (2003) “The reality of virtual organizing: Enactment of a new organizational type or expectable contingencies?” in proceedings of EGOS, European Group on Organizational Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark).

  18. 18.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. (2002) “Knowledge Management in Virtual Organisations. Interorganisational and Interproject Knowledge Transfer,” proceedings of third European conference on organizational knowledge, learning and capabilities (OKLC 2002), in April 2002, Athens.

  19. 19.Bosch-Sijtsema, P.M. (2001) “The virtual organisation and knowledge development. A case of expectations”. Paper presented at the German ISKO 2001 (21-23 March 2001) conference on Wissensorganisation und Edutainment, Berlin, Germany, Proceedings of ISKO 2001 (international society of knowledge organization) Germany.

  20. 20.Driver, Michael J. & Petra Bosch-Sijtsema (1997) “Style-based Team-Building of Virtual organisations: The ISES Case of R&D Co-operation in the Utility Industry,” Poster paper in the Proceedings DA/DSM 97 Europe, Distribution Automation & Demand Side Management conference in Amsterdam, October.