The equalizing impact of a group support system on status differentials

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-100

  Tan, Bernard C Y ^a   Wei, Kwok Kee ^a   Watson, Richard T ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic communication; Group support systems; Management; Status differentials; Task type; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010108189     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/297117.297126     Document Type: Article

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