Collaborative work across boundaries: Filtering, tagging and rating shared resources in interorganizational settings

The present work concentrates on collaborative virtual work and the tactics for spanning organizational boundaries. To this effect, it proposes an architectural pattern for Collective Collaborative Tagging (CCT) that integrates cloud-based resource sharing and enterprise portals. The current implementation exploits Dropbox for file sharing and the Liferay enterprise portal for managing meta-data and collective wisdom. The results illustrate the feasibility of a tactic for spanning inter-organizational boundaries to establish and sustain improved information connectivity between members of cross-functional virtual teams. They also point to capabilities of digital trace data to untangle intrinsic properties of enacted cyber-structures resulting from the users' recurrent co-engagement.