Lessons from the early adopters of web groupware

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 65-86

  Dennis, Alan R ^a,b,c,d   Pootheri, Sridar K ^e,f   Natarajan, Vijaya L ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Queens University

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Adoption of information technology; Groupware; Web groupware

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032223724     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1998.11518186     Document Type: Article

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