Groupware Environments as Action Constitutive Resources: A Social Action Framework for Analyzing Groupware Technologies

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-93

  Ngwenyama, Ojelanki K ^a   Lyytinen, Kalle J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collaboration technology; Communication systems; Computer supported cooperative work; Coordination systems; Decision support systems; Group support systems; Groupware; Social action theory

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK (CSCW); GROUPWARE TECHNOLOGIES; SOCIAL ACTION THEORY;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030713765     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008600220584     Document Type: Article

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