Electronic mail as a coalition-building information technology

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 82-100

  Romm, Celia T ^a   Pliskin, Nava ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abuse; Coalition building; Email; Human Factors; K.4.1; MIS; Politics

Indexed keywords

COALITION BUILDING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 0031599421     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/267954.267958     Document Type: Article

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