The firm as a collaborative community : reconstructing trust in the knowledge economy / [edited by] Charles Heckscher and Paul S. Adler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards collaborative community / Paul S. Adler and Charles Heckscher -- A real-time revolution in routines / Charles F. Sabel -- The self in transition : from bureaucratic to interactive social character / Michael Maccoby -- Mastering the law of requisite variety with differentiated networks / Jay R. Galbraith -- Beyond hacker idiocy : the changing nature of software community and identity / Paul S. Adler -- Health care organizations as collaborative learning communities / Michael Maccoby -- Hyperconnected net work : computer-mediated community in a high-tech organization / Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman -- Collaborative community and employee representation / Saul A. Rubinstein -- Building inter-firm collaborative community : uniting theory and practice / Lynda M. Applegate -- Collaboration in supply chains : with and without trust / John Paul MacDuffie and Susan Helper -- A note on leadership for collaborative communities / Michael Maccoby and Charles Heckscher -- The strategic fitness process and the creation of collaborative community / Charles Heckscher and Nathaniel Foote -- 'The power to convene' : creating collaborative community with strategic customers / Mark Bonchek and Robert Howard.