How Virtual Meetings Matter for Community at Work

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'This book provides a fascinating, timely and distinctive exploration of how organizational meetings can be better understood as a practice of community building. The empirical settings of public and private sector organizations in Sweden provides a rich context for exploring the effects of digital interaction on meeting organization in a setting where values of trust, consensus-building and collaboration are valued. The book will be valuable to managers and leaders in the Nordics and beyond as a means of reflecting on how meetings are organized, and the purposes that they serve, as well as to researchers who are interested in better understanding how humans make meaning at work.' -- Emma Bell, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden 'I thoroughly enjoyed this concise book, which is timely given the current debates around remote work. The authors convincingly demonstrate that virtual meetings are about performing communing, rather than creating community. Far from being a simple change of words, I have found this focus on communing both highly stimulating for future research, and particularly relevant for management practitioners.' -- Viviane Sergi, ESG UQAM, Canada 'How can you build a sense of community when working remotely? This book tackles this highly topical issue in a way that is both original and insightful, through a nuanced analysis of virtual meetings and how a "common ground" is created through the constant interplay between humans and technology.' -- Erika Andersson Cederholm, Lund University, Sweden