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Virtual spaces as workplaces: working and leading in virtual worlds

In: Leadership in Spaces and Places

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  • Matti Vartiainen

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This chapter focuses on leading and working practices in virtual worlds. Virtual worlds as digital collaboration environments are explored and studied from the perspective of sociomaterial theory. Virtual worlds considered here are communication and collaboration environments in which multiple actors share the same three-dimensional digital space despite occupying remote physical locations. Leadership in virtual spaces is seen as a relation that is constructed between people, between people and materiality (e.g., local built environment, place, artefacts) and between people and digital representations (e.g., virtual worlds and its visual artefacts), including the characteristics and behaviour of an avatar. The chapter continues by exploring leadership in virtual spaces from three perspectives: affordances of virtual worlds, social relationships and the characteristics of an avatar. Finally, virtual worlds as workplaces are categorized based on the literature.

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  • Matti Vartiainen, 2015. "Virtual spaces as workplaces: working and leading in virtual worlds," Chapters, in: Leadership in Spaces and Places, chapter 6, pages 128-144, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:15940_6
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