This book is the first work devoted to virtual organizations as a new form of doing business and talking about technologies for managing virtual enterprises: from the creation of fundamental virtual assets (technology, knowledge, virtual organizational structure) to the features of management in a virtual work environment.—Intangible assets : why in a post-industrial economy they are considered the main source of income for a company. — Knowledge is the lifeblood of a virtual organization: how to produce knowledge and how to manage it. — Information technology as the basis of a virtual workspace. — Personnel management in a virtual work environment: how to organize effective remote work of employees located on different continents. — Managers for virtual organizations: how to prepare them, what special skills they should have. (Several pages are missing, dropped out of the djvu source.)