Grudin, JonathanHerrmann, ThomasJust-Hahn, Katharina2017-08-102017-08-1019983-519-02692-9There is general agreement that new technologies make possible the rising focus on mergers, globalization, and widely distributed activity. However, only slowly are technologies more complex than telephone, fax, and email coming to play a role in supporting virtual collocation. I have been studying successful (and some less successful) deployments of such technologies and will report on some emerging patterns.enText/Conference Paper