Resumen
As a tool for self-examination in social context, particularly those at work, virtual organizing requires participants to share in the management of those context. The dynamics of virtual organizing are closely related to self-organizing, in making sense of one's action through elucidation of the experience of the actors themselves-who are best situated for doing so. This way of making sense is akin to the Bayesian approach to decision making in that it relies on the actor's own subjective estimates of probabilities when actuaries are not available to determine them "objectively." Contrary to the built-in myopia characteristic of speculative- and exploitive-minded action geared to relatively short-term benefits, a virtually minded strategy seeks to construct coevolving and lasting relationships over a longer-term horizon. The very logic of virtual organizing drives toward the longer term and toward more responsible relations with the environment. Solidarity with the wider system to which one belongs makes sense right from the start of the process of elaborating action.