LEADERSHIP IN VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS

Current economic circumstances, very dynamic and characterized by uncertainty, require organizations to identify new sources of competitive advantage to remain competitive. Collaboration between organizations in collaborative networks are forms and environments in which organizations can use their distinctive potential. Capitalization of organizational potential in isolated manner, will not generate competitive advantage. Also important, the globalization and relocation of business, and integration of geographically distributed collaborative networks have led to the need of identifying new ways of driving closer distributed nature of business. Collaborative networks, virtual organizations and new technologies underlying organizational processes provides new spaces for interaction. Distributed organizations leadership gains new meanings that can be explored.