Adaptiveness in Virtual Teams: Organisational Challenges and Research Directions

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 27-46

  Qureshi, Sajda ^a   Vogel, Doug ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Computer mediated communication; Computer support for cooperative work; Group support systems; Groupware; Structuration theory; Virtual teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035611818     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008756811139     Document Type: Article

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