Wiesław M. Grudzewski

Trust Management in Virtual Work Environments : A Human Factors Perspective

Theoretical Framework for Trust Management. Human Factors Principles in Building Trust Systems. Human Factors of Virtual Organization. Practical Strategies for Trust Management in Virtual Organizations.

Virtual Scorecard as a Decision-Making Tool in Creating Virtual Organisation

Peter Drucker “If you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it”. We want to elaborate the partners for co-operation in Virtual Organisation (VO). Our specific goal is to elaborate the Virtual Scorecard — a measure of organization abilities to form VO, which will give the answer for the following question — How well is the organization prepared to form VO?

DEVELOPMENT OF A KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY IN POLAND

ABSTRACT In order to maintain the high level of growth in a knowledge-based economy, it is essential to create the special atmosphere in a social environment that supports its development. The development of a knowledge-based economy requires human capital, the appropriate development of an information infrastructure, and national innovation systems to be interlinked. The main actions for creating the knowledge-based economy in European-Union–accessing countries are as follows: 1. building institution for research and development and a system of economical incentives. 2. developing an educational system that enables the creation of intellectual capital. 3. building the national information infrastructure, focusing on providing easy access to teleinformation technologies and its promotion and application in central organs of public administration and local governance in the public and private sector, as well as building the basis of a civil society.

A comparative analysis of experts' perception of critical success factors affecting virtual organisation: North American versus Polish

This paper is a pioneering attempt to analyse the critical success factors affecting Polish-US collaboration within a Virtual Organisation (VO) in the light of opinions of experts from both countries. We have explored the similarities and differences in the perception of role of the critical success factors in these countries, potential sources of these factors and implications of these sources for Polish-US mutual collaboration in the form of VO. Trust should be considered a backbone of VOs management today affecting success of this organisational form. Furthermore, the directions for future researches in this area are given.