Communication and coordination in the virtual office

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 7-28

  Fritz, Mary Beth Watson ^a,b   Narasimhan, Sridhar ^b,c   Rhee, Hyeun Suk ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed work; Distributed work environments; Electronic coordination; Organizational communication; Telecommuting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032223730     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07421222.1998.11518184     Document Type: Article

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