Communication patterns as determinants of organizational identification ina virtual organization

Recent advances in information technologies provide employees the freedom t o work from any place and at any time. Such temporal and spatial dispersion , however, weakens the ties that bind organizations and their members. We s uggest that organizational identification may be the critical glue linking virtual workers and their organizations. We explore the role that informati on technologies play in the creation and maintenance of a common identity a mong decoupled organization members.