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

Authors: Wieslaw M. Grudzewski, Anna Sankowska, Monika Wantuchowicz

Addresses: Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of Organization and Management in Industry (ORGMASZ), Zelazna 87 Str., r. 605, 00-879 Warsaw, Poland. ' Faculty of Production Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Narbutta 85, Str., 02–524 Warsaw, Poland. ' Faculty of Production Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Narbutta 85, Str., 02–524 Warsaw, Poland

Abstract: 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 VO|s management today affecting success of this organisational form. Furthermore, the directions for future researches in this area are given.

Keywords: virtual organisations; critical success factors; Poland; USA; United States.

DOI: 10.1504/IJNVO.2007.015168

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2007 Vol.4 No.3, pp.318 - 327

Published online: 19 Sep 2007 *

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