The gender impact of temporary virtual work groups

IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 276-285

  Lind, Mary R ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communications (CMC); Email; Gender studies; Telecommuting; Virtual terms

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; TELECOMMUTING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS (CMC);

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 0033326558     PISSN: 03611434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/47.807966     Document Type: Article

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