Managing the Complexity of Forming an Online Networking Community:

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Managing the Complexity of Forming an Online Networking Community:
A Researcher's Perspective
by
Dale Vaillancourt, Ph.D.
Paper presented at the 9th Midwest Qualitative Research Conference,
June18-20, 2003. University of St. Thomas. St. Thomas, Minneapolis.
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Abstract
To improve an existing organization, chaos theory suggests that leaders focus on important local conditions. To create a virtual organization, this researcher offers that investigators similarly take the lead and initially decide what local conditions are important. It is also suggested that they have the capacity to manage and to respond to the anticipated complexity of other involved leaders' demands. This paper describes the initial approach that this researcher used to operationalize her doctoral case study of forming an online networking community with 21 female entrepreneurs. She decided and pursued select initial conditions and used a data analysis software called ATLAS.tiTM ( (n.d.) throughout her applied ethnography to perceptually transform dynamic participant activities into an ordered picture. The intent of the paper is to show that by using management and database competence to complement dynamic entrepreneurial activity, we can extend our research capacity and learn how to venture into new organizational areas.
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