Social and Organizational Issues Social and organizational issues are active areas of current research among the CSCW community.
Collaboration is largely a social and organizational endeavor.
Understanding these issues may aid us in discovering more effective and efficient forms of collaboration. It may also lead us to better understand the underlying context in which work and collaboration takes place. Yet, as collaborative applications and activities grow on the WWW, these social and organizational issues will become increasingly relevant and important to study. The aim of this section is to survey the kinds of social and organizational issues that collaborative technology has instigated, but not to make judgments or draw conclusions on these issues. In cases where the same members of a group consistently collaborate over time, members may perceive the emergence of an on-line, virtual community.